Human psychology evolved under in the social milieu of constrained complexity. Currently, humans live in unconstrained complexity. What has this done to our minds? These topics are addressed in various parts of An Archaeology of the Fall, particularly in chapters 8C and 11B.
[The word ‘locomotion’ is a mash of two words ‘location’ and ‘motion’.
It derives from the Latin words locus (or place) and motivus (causing to move).
Yet, the slang word ‘loco’ means ‘crazy’.
Freud’s model combines the two images by describing the human psyche in a fashion that matches an intersection. Consider the following two blogs.]
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[I don’t want to go too far off track.
But, it seems that the interscope and intersection take me in different directions.
One applies when the steam engine is working.
One applies when the steam engine is not working properly.
Is there a method to Frued’s metaphorical madness?]
[The single actuality that encompasses valves and boilers emerges from and situates two potentials that seem to have nothing to do with either boilers or valves.
The single actuality underlies the two normal contexts that describe the normal functioning steam engine.
It also belongs to a context that seems to have nothing to do with the mechanics of an engine. The normal context for the single actuality is the running of the engine.
That normal context is informed by the perspective of transportation in figure 2.3G.]
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[Of course, trains are well and good until something goes wrong.
Did the know-it-alls who named ‘the engine bearing unit of a train’ the ‘locomotive’ also know that the word ‘loco’ is slang for ‘crazy’? Word historians take note!
When something goes wrong, the actualities of the boiler and the valves merge into a single problem. The piston does not work!
What could the issue be? The fuel? The flow of water and steam? The pressure? The regulators and valves?]
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[The piston of the steam engine could accomplish work.
What type of work?
‘Work’ has a technical definition in physics. Here, I mean ‘getting a task accomplished’ in contrast to ‘wasting effort’.
This goes with the perspective level of a steam engine.
The perspective level of the piston may interscope with higher nested forms.
The result is another interscope.]
[How about this metaphor?
The person’s psyche is like a steam engine.
Perhaps, the normal contexts of think and law act like regulators. Conscience and dispositions act like fuel.
Sigmund Freud, one of the founders of psychoanalysis, started with a picture of the unconscious as a steam engine powering a locomotive.
Freud wrote between 1890 and 1950 AD (7690-7750 U0′).]
