HOMO SCHIZO 1

by

ALFRED DE GRAZIA


 TITLE-PAGE

 FOREWORD

 Chapter 1: SLIPPERY LADDERS OF EVOLUTION
THE HUMAN BRAINCASE
THE SEARCH FOR A BETTER APE
LEGENDS OF CREATION
MEMORIAL GENERATIONS
NATURAL SELECTION
SEVERE LIMITS TO NATURAL SELECTION
"WAVES OF EVOLUTION"

 Chapter 2: HOMINIDS IN HOLOGENESIS
HOMO ERECTUS
PEKING MAN
FOOTPRINTS
AMEGHINO'S ARGENTINE HOMINIDS
METHODOLOGICAL POSSIBILITIES
TIME UNNEEDED FOR CULTURE
OLDUVAI GORGE
A SURPRISING COLLAPSE OF TIME
CHARDIN'S ORTHOGENETICS
DOBZHANSKY, SIMPSON AND QUANTUM EVOLUTION

 Chapter 3: MECHANICS OF HUMANIZATION
ANCIENT CATASTROPHES
THE HUMANIZING FACTOR
QUANTAVOLUTION VS. EVOLUTION
BRAIN SPECIALIZATION
SIGNALING HORMONES
MUTATION
INTELLIGENT MUTATION AND EVOLUTIONARY SALTATIONS
EXTERNAL PRODUCERS OF MUTATION
VIRAL MUTATION
PSYCHOSOMATIC GENETICS
AN ATMOSPHERIC TRANSFORMATION
SOCIAL IMPRINTING
THE SUMMARY MECHANICS

 Chapter 4: THE GESTALT OF CREATION
THE GESTALT OF CREATION AND ITS AFTERMATH
A MIND SPLIT BY MINUTE DELAYS
FRIGHT, RECALL, AND AGGRESSION
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
MEMORY AND FORGETTING
THE STRUGGLE OF THE SELEVES
BECOMING TWO-LEGGED
VOLUNTARISM
DIFFUSION OF THE GESTALT
THE DOUBLE CATASTROPHE
A PRIMORDIAL SCENARIO
QUANTAVOLUTION AND HOLOGENESIS
THE NEW HUMAN BEING

 Chapter 5: CULTURAL REVOLUTION
PROTO-CULTURE
LOST MILLIONS OF YEARS
TRIBES, CIVILIZATIONS, AND TIME
MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS EVERYWHERE CONTEMPORARY
ECUMENICAL CULTURE
AMERICAN CULTURAL ORIGINS
CULTURAL INTEGRATION

 Chapter 6: SCHIZOID INSTITUTIONS
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
GRAPHICS
PRIMORDIAL LANGUAGE
GROUP VS. INDIVIDUAL
PSYCHOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION
MEGALITHS AND MEGALINES
ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL
REPUBLIC AND MONARCHY
AUTHORITY
COVENANT AND CONTRACT
SEXUAL RAMIFICATIONS
THE COMPULSION TO REPEAT CHAOS AND CREATION
SUBLIMATION
CANNIBALISM
VIOLENCE AND WAR

 Chapter 7: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF HISTORY
A SICK JOURNEY
HISTORISM
SCHIZOID EPISODES IN ABUNDANCE
HELL
ORDINARY MAD TIMES
NAZIS, STALINISTS, AND DEMOCRATS
RELIGION AS CUSTODIAN OF FEAR
UTOPIANISM
DARWINIAN HISTORISM

 Chapter 8: THE HOPEFUL MONSTER
REAL AND PSYCHIC DISASTER
A RECENT SMALL SHARP CHANGE
THE UNREDEEMABLE APEMAN
SCHIZOTYPICALITY AND HOMO SAPIENS