[Besides Lachelier,] the other confirmation of the two-dimensionality of animal emotion comes from the Russian theosophical philosopher P. D. Ouspensky. Ouspensky also saw the animal world as a world of emotion: “In reality the animal does not reason its actions, but lives by its emotions, subject to that emotion which happens to be strongest. . […]

Comparing human consciousness to that of animals, the nineteenth century philosopher Jules Lachelier concludes that animals “are provided with the same senses as we, but it is probable that these senses move them much more than they teach them and that these impressions themselves are entirely subordinated to their organic feelings.” Lachelier associates animal being […]

In Psychological Types, Jung maintained that the functioning of the human psyche entails four basic forms of activity. These functions cannot be reduced to each other and are invariant relative to the specific content of experience, which changes from moment to moment. The four functions of which Jung spoke are thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuition. […]

Gebser makes the observation that [the] two-dimensional wavelike rhythm of the soul is accompanied by an experience of time characterized by a retrospectiveness, a continual “harking back to what was,” a returning again and again to the “beginning,” as the ocean waves rise, crest, and fall back down into their troughs, only to rise again. […]

Though Jung did not allude to the Klein bottle, it is interesting that he gave archetypal significance to 3 + 1-dimensional structure, regarding it as a “space-time quaternio” constituting “the organizing schema par excellence among the psychic quaternities.” The 3-D spatial aspect of the Klein bottle can readily be associated with the spatial aspect of […]

According to Berman, the Paleolithic human being saw the animal as an Other, but one with whom s/he was intimately identified. In fact, the earliest humans were so deeply immersed in the animal world that it might be plausible to say that, in a sense, they were more animal-like than human. “Animal life was everywhere, […]

I view a young man who is crossing a bridge. The bridge does not pass completely over the body of water it spans, but curves down into it. In watching this scene, I have the strong feeling of viewing a movie that curves back on itself. The film is trying to film itself, I think, […]

I sit in a chair, looking out at the sea through a large bay window. The ocean vista is beautiful to behold. But now I begin to notice that the sea is rising, and water has begun creeping up toward the base of the house. This alarms me. I dread the prospect of being engulfed. […]

Presently, I am again bringing my attention to my eyes as they stereoview the Klein bottle. I direct my awareness to the place where the Klein bottle intersects itself. If this is the gateway to the “fourth dimension,” if this is where subjectivity enters the picture, and if the subjectivity in question is not some […]

[W]e may broadly say that the solutio is characterized by the transition from a state of concretely embodied polymorphous relatedness to one of monomorphous abstraction: a single order of being gains ascendancy, detaching itself from the opposing orders with which it had been intimately entangled, whereupon the latter are objectified or repressed. We have seen […]