Review article

Emergence of the Mental/Rational and Suppression/Marginalization of the Bodily

Vanja Borš ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In this paper the attention is focused on the emergence of mental/rational thinking (level of consciousness), particularly in phylogenetic context, which is largely characterized by a deviation manifested in suppression and marginalization of the bodily. Namely, it is the emergence of the mental/rational which presents the beginning of the mentioned deviation (in mythic discourse presented and celebrated as the victory of the Hero over the Great Mother), that is, the suppression and marginalization of all that which has been or still is associated with the bodily: sexual, feminine, unconscious, nature, etc. Lastly, the starting point of this paper is that, through the deconstruction of the mind–body dichotomy, we need to awake the fundamentality of the bodily and thus, instead of suppressing and dissociating it as mentioned (which marks a considerable part of the Occidental history), transcend and integrate it healthily (which is characteristic of the integral thinking, that is, the integral level of consciousness).

Keywords

Axial Age; mental/rational thinking; suppression/marginalization of the bodily; deconstruction

Hrčak ID:

158777

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/158777

Publication date:

2.12.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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