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The divorce is centrifugal: Divergence
Marriage is
Centripetal: Convergence
This suggests a dynamic pulsation – expansion: contraction.
The paranoid–schizoid and depressive positions are related to a part of the domain of thought, that part of it in which there exist thinkers corresponding to the thoughts awaiting someone or something to think them. The thinkers might be likened to objects sensitive to contain wave lengths of thought, as the eye or radio-telescope is sensitive to a particular range of electromagnetic waves. Such thinkers can be impinged upon by thoughts which are too powerful in relation to the sensitivity of the receiving apparatus. Or they may be unmatched by a reciprocating thinker.
The human being may not, despite similarities to other human beings, have an apparatus adequate to thinking the thoughts, through over- or under-sensitivity. The human becomes aware of these thoughts usually through the medium of what is ordinarily known to him as religious awe and is variously expressed as incarnation, evolution of godhead, platonic forms, Krishna, mystic experience, inspiration and the like. Thus the source of emission of the received or evolved thoughts is felt as external, God-given, derived from a particular person, or occasion, phrase, book, painting, awareness of a constant conjunction. The fate of the thought and the thinker is to follow one of the paths I have already indicated as peculiar to ♂, or some variation. In some circumstances the impact is incandescent, growth-producing, and then the individual thinker becomes an emitter or intermittent. And a chain reaction is set up, as I have already discussed it, in terms of the messianic thought, mystic etc. … The problem is whether one is to regard this model ♀♂ as a model for a configuration which underlines certain groups of particular instances, or is it simply a way of regarding meaningless, incoherent, unrelated phenomena and making them appear to have coherence and
a meaningful pattern.1 Do