Homo Schizo II: Human Nature and Behavior

Author: Alfred de Grazia Year: 1983 Publisher: Metron Publications, Princeton, N.J. Series: Quantavolution & Catastrophe

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Synopsis

Homo Schizo II extends the model introduced in Volume I into the domain of human behavior — emotion, sexuality, aggression, language, and social organization. De Grazia analyzes everyday and institutional human behavior as expressions of the schizoid character shaped by ancestral catastrophic trauma.

Topics include: the origin of language as a response to catastrophe, the psychology of crowds and panic under sky-terror, sexual behavior and fertility cults as response to perceived celestial punishment, and the persistence of “catastrophic time” (cyclical fear) in cultures long after the events themselves.

Where Volume I focused on culture and origins, this volume focuses on the individual and social psychology of the catastrophist-adapted human being. Together the two volumes constitute de Grazia’s complete theory of human nature.

Key Themes

• Language origin through catastrophic vocalization and ritual
• Sexual and fertility cults as sky-terror responses
• Crowd psychology and panic as evolutionary adaptations
• The persistence of archaic fear patterns in modern institutions
• Aggression and war as displaced celestial combat reenactment

See Also

• Author Index
• Homo Schizo I — companion volume on cultural hologenesis
• Divine Succession — gods as celestial bodies in the psyche

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