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Two outstanding character traits of the Balinese, their incomplete conception of time in reiation to the future and their disintegrated body image, both looked upon as different aspects of the same incomplete conception of Gestalten, are analyzed by Eissler as results of early childhood traumatization. In crawling, the baby has its first opportunity to experiment with a goal-directed activity which involves his entire body, and in this very respect the Balinese baby is severely frustrated by his mother. The demonstration of this traumatization, however, does not answer the question as to why this habit came into existence in Bali in the first place. The material of Bateson and Mead emphasizes the possibility that the lost functions of time-conception and body-image must have been there at some time.
In his comments, Eissler comes to the following general conclusion: 'In view of the unfortunate misapplication of the terms "cultural" and "biological" when applied to the entity "man", it seems to be of paramount importance to define their true meaning in relation to each other. Otherwise there is grave danger that Freud's concept of a psychic apparatus will be ground to pieces between these two millstones. Psychology, which should be a science of the psychic apparatus, will be divided into "biological" and "cultural" psychology, which means that much will be known about human culture and about the human body, but nothing about man himself.'