directed way, and to a mythical demand in an encompassing andequalizing manner, such a person can only react to the dictates of driveand instinct, that is, in emotional, non-committal, and chaotic orpredominantly magic responses. This means that he or she will founder inthe face of important questions of life (such foundering is mainlyexpressed in major, protracted, and chronic illness).In addition, life has a tendency to find its equilibrium. Since we live in aconsciousness structure pervaded, as ours is, by conceptions ofperspectivity, we must bring this structure into balance with the others ifwe are to act against life itself. <strong>The</strong> fact that we achieve such anequilibrium by living an integral and not merely a fragmented life is thebasic condition that makes possible the mutation which could possiblysurmount the dualistic dead-end into which we have maneuveredourselves.Let us note the decisive fact that man is the integrality of his mutations.Only to the extent that he succeeds in living the whole is his life trulyintegral. But we should go one step further: only if life is integral in thissense of equally living-to-the-full the structures which constitute us does itencompass the emerging structure not only potentially, but in an actualand acute sense.By this time it should be evident that we are not merely toying here withthoughts, but are turning our mind to the prime difficulties that face therealization of an integral life. For life, after all, is not just a sum of vitalaspects; the Vitalists failed to realize the fundamentally one-sided andmagic nature of their vitalist preoccupation.We must again approach here, by way of summary, a phenomenon that istruly terrifying so long as we remain unenlightened about it. We refer tothe incursion of deficient magic phenomena into our world - the regressionnoticeable everywhere of our rational attitude to one of deficient magic. Itis not as if the mythical attitude alone is over-activated today, althoughthe imagistic aspect of the cinema or the inflation of psychic imagerymade conscious are clear testimony of a process of unbridled anduncontrolled regression to the deficient mythical structure. Far strongerthan this is the regression to the deficient magic structure. <strong>The</strong> relation ofboth the magic and the mental structures toward something outside ofthemselves - that of the magic to nature and of the mental to the world -results in a stronger affinity between them than between either and themythical.We have pointed out this regression to the magical several times; wewould recall here our discussion of the basic component of Vitalism as wellas our indication of the parallel deficient forms of sorcery and utilitarianthinking with their goal and purpose orientation. We would also recall theremarkable correspondence between the labyrinthine aspects of theviscera and the brain which T. S. Eliot has also pointed out. And lastly,even if we disregard the emphasis on "making" and power inherent in both52
structures in their deficient phases, we find an indication of deficientmagic forms of manifestation in the tendency noted earlier towardcollectivization or mass-phenomena in the one instance, and isolation inthe other, whose antithetic tension threatens to tear apart our perspectivalworld.Collectivization and mass-phenomena, for that matter, may well benothing other than a reactivated magic clan-attunement in deficient form.Political parties are a compelling example, particularly the extreme onesdominated by the fanatically blind point-relatedness of the magical. Andisolation or individuation may well be nothing more than the reactivatedmagic point-like unity become deficient. While the beginnings ofindividuation and the clan formed a unity in the magic structure, they aretoday rationally torn asunder and, driven to extremes, have in theirdeficiency a destructive effect.Or, stated differently, we might say that the hyperobjectivation achievedby the ratio brings about isolation, whereas the hypersubjectivation - theoveremphasis of the Ego - leads to the limits of Ego-capacity where theego, reverting to its psychic conditionality rather than mastering thepsyche, is itself ruled and condemned by it: it is absorbed by theunconscious, by immoderation, by the mass.All remedies proposed to combat this danger turn out to be unsuitable.Political parties of "unity" or unified states attempt to regulate theproblems of isolation or collectivization, although they reveal their owndeficient character by their one-sided demands for power. <strong>The</strong> attempt ismade to improve the circumstances of deficient magic by means ofdeficient magic, an attempt, as it were, to drive out the devil by invokingBeelzebub.Let this one example suffice to show the basic point: wherever weencounter a predominance of insistent requests (and fanaticism is arequest blindly elevated to a demand which not only petitions butcompels); wherever we find a prevalence of the idea of unification inwhatever form - a doctrine of unity, the establishment of an association, ahuge organization, a one-party state and the like; wherever we encountera stress on the concept of obedience, as in an overemphasis an themilitary, or of belonging and belongings, as in the property claims ofcapitalistic trusts or family patriarchies; and in general wherever we meetup with overweening emotionalism as in mass assemblies, propaganda,slogans, and the like, we may conclude that we are dealing mainly withessentially deficient manifestations of magic.<strong>The</strong>ir deficiency can be recognized by their very claim to exclusivity, as ifthey alone had validity or worth in contrast to the validity of otherstructures and forms of manifestation. Yet one may well ask what is to begained by our classification of these phenomena as being deficientlymagical. <strong>The</strong> answer is that because we know how they come to be, andrecognize their conditionality, we no longer have to face them unaided.53
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