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is a peculiar kind of psychological connection with objects, consisting in the fact that the subject cannot clearly distinguish himself from the object but is bound to it by a direct relationship which amounts to partial identity.

Jung defines Participation Mystique as one of his basic definitions in Psychological Types, crediting it to Levy-Bruhl. . . .PARTICIPATION MYSTIQUE is a term derived from Levy-Bruhl. It denotes a peculiar kind of psychological connection with objects, and consist in the fact that the subject cannot clearly distinguish himself from the object but is bound to it by a direct relationship which amounts to partial identity. (Jung, [1921] 1971: paragraph 781). . . . .Jung used the term throughout his writings after Levy-Brühl's work was published in 1912. Jung referred to it consistently with the French terminology rather than using the English 'mystical participation' until Man and His Symbols was published after his death. . . . The further we go back into history, the more we see personality disappearing beneath the wrappings of collectivity. And if we go right back to primitive psychology, we find absolutely no trace of the concept of an individual. Instead of individuality we find only collective relationship or what Levy-Bruhl calls participation mystique (Jung, [1921] 1971: par. 12). (wikiepedia)

is defined by the need to nail a cause for every misfortune. The defining feature of modernity, to forbear to ask. Our distinctive achievement in modernity was to invent the idea of natural death and actually believe in it.

he taught that after millennia of uor human past in which dangers were dsaid to be caused by witchcraft and taboo-breaking, our distinctive achievement was to invent the idea of natural death and actually believe in it. . . .for him, the defining feature of primitive man is to try to nail a cause for every misfortune... and the defining feature of modernity, to forbear to ask' (Douglass Risk and CUlture 31).

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