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meantime the integral perception and presentation of the particularquestion in all its aspects.We have attempted to resolve this first difficulty by immediately pointingto the multiple aspects or strata of a question as we discussed it, aprocedure that has uncovered and established a considerable number ofinterrelationships. Accordingly, constant reference has been made tomatters already discussed in other contexts; but we have also had toanticipate certain things lest we find ourselves caught in the dualistic culde-sac.This stratiform multiplicity inherent in our questions in which their entiretybecomes visible has necessitated a stratiform and multiple mode ofpresentation. But as such a method can be considered inherentlyinconsistent - a method is only able to assess and evaluate one matter ata time - we have designated our approach as "diaphany" which, incontrast to method, at least allows the integral simultaneity to be madetransparent. It defines, then, how the integral simultaneity can be madediaphanous despite the necessity of a sequential presentation and theimpossibility of its being presented in customary expository form.The second difficulty rests in our attempt to elaborate something "new"within the framework and limitations of "old" language. The words andconcepts of our present-day language are to a great extent rigidified alongthe lines of the perspectival world. It is true that the language of poetry(as we indicated in our book Der grammatische Spiegel) at least attemptsto accommodate itself to the new and novel phenomena striving to takeshape, but this is confined mainly to initial indications which, moreover,remain mostly unnoticed. We have endeavored to overcome this obstacleby attempting to "loosen up" language, taking into account not only thepresent-day perspectivistic conceptual connotation of the words but alsotheir integral nature.Once again we would like to summarize various specific characteristics,attributions, and qualities of the respective structures in cross-section infour groupings. The necessity is particularly acute here since we havebeen repeatedly forced to allude to certain matters whose clarity andscope become evident only in summary or retrospect. Let us, then,proceed to recapitulate those things which were not immediately evidentfrom our sequential presentation, and for this the "synoptic view" -complemented and supplemented by the following cross-sections - willafford us the integral view, the simultaneous presence which is necessarilymore or less lacking in our mode of exposition.We shall attempt once more to organize the material under some specificheadings, summarizing it in the following four groupings:1) the basic attitudes of the individual structures, as well as their psychicand physical-organic emphasis;40
2) the forms of realization and thought;3) the forms of expression and manifestation; and the forms of assertionor articulation;4) the temporal, social, and general interrelationships which distinguishthe individual structures.If we arrange the material discussed above with respect to the basicattitude of the respective structures, noting what we might call the beareror agency of energy in the first instance as well as the organ emphasis inthe second, the following summary emerges (the attributions for theintegral structure are in anticipation of their discussion and verificationwhich come only in the course of our further discussion, and are placedaccordingly in parentheses):Structure9. Basic attitude and agency of 10. OrganenergyemphasisArchaic Origin: Wisdom —Magic Vital:InstinctDriveViscera — EarEmotionMythical Psychic:ImaginationSensibilityHeart — MouthDispositionMental Cerebral:ReflectionAbstractionBrain — EyeWill / volitionIntegral (Integral):(Concretion)(Renderingdiaphanous)(“Verition”)(Vertex)This summary will present few surprises in the light of what has been saidearlier. It will be unnecessary, for example, to elaborate on the vital basisof magic and its guiding force in the conscious-weak instinct, its support indrives which can become conscious, and its expression - notably ofidentity ör identification - in emotion. Nor will we need to comment ansuch attributions as the psychic accentuation of the mythical or thecerebral emphasis of the mental structures.Cross-section 10, on the other hand, may at first glance be surprising,although our ascription to the magic structure of the auditory organ, theear (which also corresponds to the labyrinth and the cavern), is perhapsevident by now. But the ascription of the viscera to the magic structure isunderstandable only if we recall several facts. The divining of entrails as ameans of foretelling events belongs to the time we have designated as themagical, and its labyrinthine aspect is palpably evident. And the41
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