The monster of mechanism

Sometimes Hillman gets so close: The folly of reducing mind to brain never seems to leave the Western scene. We can never give it up because it is so basic to our Western rationalist and positivist mind-set The rationalist in the psyche wants to locate causes you can put your hands on and fix. Machines provide the best models for meeting this desire. Take them apart, find their inner mechanisms, and then adjust their functioning by modifying their ratchets, enriching their fuel, greasing their connections. Henry Ford as father of American mental health. … The monster of mechanism appears in every century of modern Western history and must be watched for by each generation—especially ours, when to hold out for “something else” besides nature or nurture means believing in ghosts or magic. Not ghosts and magic! 😱 Much as I love Hillman, bless ‘im, I’m tempted to say an animist is a Jungian with their fingers uncrossed.