Projectivism and the dismantling of totalities

pp. 131-167

in: William Horosz, Search without idols, Berlin, Springer, 1987

Abstract

We have seen that human awareness is partly directional and partly free. The free and separate awareness has given us the most trouble in the finite search for wholeness. To say the least, it has distracted us on the way. This free awareness is available directly to each person and indirectly to others. Some avail themselves of this power for self-exploration, self-therapy, meditation, play, to get a new focus on life, to experiment, or just to wander around. The totalist utilizes the free awareness to arrive at his preferred totality. He exploits it by relocating it from the self to some other context. Once this free awareness is made to serve a new totality, which it invests with life, it is given a more than human directionality. The totalist turns this new force to undermine the control of Self-1. The totalist would have total control of human awareness. He is indeed a claim-jumper. External totalities are not unconscious creations. They are the product of a free human awareness in alliance with the manipulations of the totalist.