Menninger’s “interpretation” confounded Christian and Progressive symbolic orders.
First, let us consider the nested form on the horizontal axis.
In the Christian sphere, we substitute “lawessential” for “crime”; “sin” for “political incorrectness”; plus a still unclear “disposition towards sin” for “symptom”.
In the Progressive sphere: “Crime” puts “political incorrectness” into normal context. “Psychological symptoms” make “political incorrectness” possible.
To me, this implies that Progressivism removed elements from Christianity and claimed them for their own.
By analogy, this is what Enlil, the air-god of the city of Nippur, did to An, the sky-god (in An Archaeology of the Fall). Enlil took the sun, moon and stars from An, leaving the masculine god as stony darkness.