+Jade Haj I think the shamanic structure is schizoid. African culture is also on a schizoid model, whereas contemporary Western culture embraces a narcissistic model. The difference is the schizoid type moves in and out of BEING, and can harness fantasy to explore different types of BEING. The narcissistic type takes her or her own BEING for granted, believes it to be fixed for all time (even into and from eternity) and has very limited access to fantasies that do not have to do with a social setting. The only fantasies one in a narcissistic society can have are with regard to social efficacy and power and control. The schizoid type doesn't care for these, as he is too removed from the practicality of embracing their possibility. His severe level of detachment enables him to interpret the meaning of his society and its ways psychologically from afar. When he works out what is sick or imperfect about it, he weaves in a different fantasy, to help strengthen the social fabric. He moves between life and death (BEING and NON-BEING) to come up with his answers or solutions. Those on the narcissistic model cannot do this because they cannot permit themselves to entertain even the possibility of their NONBEING. (The narc., according to the Judeo-Christian model, believes himself to be eternal.) Non-social fantasies are viewed as a form of destruction for the narcissistic type. These are because they would take the narc. away from his constant business and interaction within SOCIETY. The narcissistic type resists being remodelled, because he believes himself to be already perfect. He treats any attempt to remodel reality with suspicion. (He doesn't seem to realize that he and his model have orginally been dreamt up by the priests of the ABRAHAMIC vein.) The narc. worships the fixed nature of his SELF as the idol against which nothing else is comparable. The schizoid type barely believes in his SELF, but in any case does not imagine it to be fixed.
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