A) Introduction
This is a brand new addition to the continuing evolution of DGB Philosophical Thinking as of today, October 11th, 2008 - this essay deriving from my last essay on this same subject matter exactly one month ago, Sept. 11th, 2008). See my September 11th essay called:
DGB Post-Hegelian 'Sun-Planet Theory' and Sixteen Mythological Idol-Fixations That Lead To One-Dimensional, One-Dominant, Style of Living
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B) On The Inter-Relationship Between Gods, Myths, Philosophers, and Heroes; Archetypes; Self-Energy Centres or Ego-States; Projection and Introjection
The rationale and logic for this line of philosophical-psychological-political... thinking runs something like this:
1. Gods, idols, heroes, mythological figures, and parental figures are all external projections and symbolizations of 'human ideals' - some relevant and meaningful to a whole culture or society, others relevant and meaningful to some 'subset' of culture or society, and still others that hold only a deeply personal meaning for us, and us alone.
2. 'Archetypes' are subconscious, internalized (or introjected) renditions of externally projected Gods, idols, mythological figures, and parental figures.
3. Thus, 'Gods', etc... and 'archetypes' work hand in hand with each other, dialectically, and ideally democratically, on both an externally projected and an internally introjected level to make up much of the psychological-philosophical-political... dynamics of the human personality...When 'Gods' and 'archetypes' collide and conflict with each other in the battlefield (conflict-zone) of the human personality (much like in the battles of the Ancient Greek Gods, read, for example, Homer and the Iliad - it is up to us -- individually and/or collectively -- to decide where our value priorities lie, 'which ego-state or self-energy centre' will dominate, and/or how to negotiate an internal and/or external 'settlement' such that our individual personality and/or our and/or the nation and/or the world as a whole can live in 'dialectical-democratic unity and harmony' -- or worded otherwise -- 'dialectic-democratic-homeostatic balance'.
4. In other words, myths and Gods are external reflections of the human personality - much like an artist's completed canvas is an external reflection of his or her own personality; and much too like Government is a reflection of the internal workings of the human personality. Different government dynamics reflect different leader personality dynamics and visa versa. Dictatorships reflect partly different dynamics than democracies - but not really. Everything is connected. Democracies tend to gravitate towards dictatorships, and dictatorships tend to gravitate towards democracies. 'Democracy' and 'dictatorship' together reflect one dialectical polarity, an important one - the 'democratic-dictatorial polarity' - amongst countless similar 'multiple-bi-polarities' that make up: 1. the character (meaning the philosophy and psychology) of man; 2. the biology, chemistry, and physics of man; 3. all aspects of the culture and politics of man; and 4. the essence of life - and the 'life-death'/'health-sickness' bi-polarities.
Based on the above developed logic, and other related DGB Post-Hegelian, Post-Nietzschean, Post-Spinozian, post-Freudian, post-Cannon principles, here are:
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C/10 Essential DGB Philosophy Principles Pertaining to the Multiple-Bi-Polar Nature of Man and Life and the Inter-Related Dynamics:
1. Individual molecules come together through the phenomenon of 'chemical attraction' and unite ('differential unity');
2. 'Differentially unified' molecules break apart and 'individuate' through the combined principles of 'resentment, anger, hate, repulsion, longing for freedom...;
3. Individual molecules 'compete' with each other and/or 'co-operate' with each other with the goal of 'individual and/or group survival' in mind - both often happening to some degree or another at the same time, sometimes, the 'competition' part dominating, other times, the 'co-operation' part dominating, and in effect, engineering both the 'constructive' and/or the 'destructive' (or 'deconstructive') forces of life and/or death, individual separation and/or differential union.
4. Stage 3 sets the stage for either Stage 1 or 2 to go into effect.
5. 'Freedom' and 'determinism' is another human and life 'bi-polarity', and the two dialectically interact with each other, negotiate with each other, and unite with each other, in the ongoing process and psych-philo-chemistry of 'free-determinism' or 'deterministic freedom'.
6. 'Republicanism' and 'Democratism' is another important human bi-polarity as is 'liberalism' and 'conservatism'.
7. 'Capitlism' and 'socialism' make up another important human bi-polarity.
8. 'Apollonianism' (ethics, equality, justice...)and 'Dionyisianism' (sensuality, sexuality, pleasure...See 'The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche, and also Freud and Psychoanalysis...) is another important human bi-polarity.
9. 'Security or safety' vs. 'risk, newness, and excitement' is another important human bi-polarity.
10. All human bi-polarities gravitate towards a position of 'homeostatic (dialectic-democratic) balance; and when this position gets too boring, too 'status-quo', too routine, too taken for granted, new bio-chemical, philosopical and psychological forces tend to propel a person and/or a society back out towards the edges of one form of 'bi-polar extremism' or another.
I will let you 'chew' on these principles for a while without further elaboration.
Have a great day!
- dgb, October 11th, 2008.
