The Correspondence between
Psychology and the Elements. Just as
fire and water line up on the female, or objective, side of life against vegetation
(earth) and air, their male, or subjective, counterparts, which have more to do
with a convergent plenum than with a divergent vacuum, as in the distinction
between phallus and vagina or, if you will, 'balls' and 'cunt', so it could be
said that the unconscious and the subconscious line up on a like basis against
consciousness and superconsciousness, with a noumenal antithesis between the
unconscious and the superconscious, will and soul, on the ethereal planes of
space and time, but a phenomenal antithesis between the subconscious and the
conscious, spirit and ego, on the corporeal planes of volume and mass. Hence
fire and air are the alpha and omega of the noumenal planes, water and
vegetation (earth) the alpha and omega of the phenomenal ones. But, in
practice, either the alpha gets the better of the omega, establishing a
sensual/antisensible correspondence between will and antisoul, the unconscious
and the anti-superconscious, on the planes of space and antitime, and between
spirit and anti-ego, the subconscious and the anticonscious, on the planes of
volume and antimass, or, alternatively, the omega, premised upon an urban
rather than a natural precondition, gets the better of the alpha, establishing
a sensible/antisensual correspondence between soul and antiwill, the
superconscious and the anti-unconscious, on the planes of time and antispace,
and between ego and antispirit, the conscious and the anti-subconscious, on the
planes of mass and antivolume. For the one gender can only be hegemonically
ascendant at the expense of the other, which means that either females
sensually triumph over antimales, whether unequivocally in space or equivocally
in volume, or, by sensible contrast, males triumph over antifemales, whether
equivocally in mass or unequivocally in time. Thus what has been called
anticonsciousness in the one case (phenomenal) and anti-superconsciousness in
the other case (noumenal) are products of female domination through either the
subconscious (phenomenal) or the unconscious (noumenal), anti-ego
antiphysically subordinate to the chemical hegemony of spirit, and antisoul
antimetaphysically subordinate to the metachemical hegemony of will. By
contrast, what has been called anti-unconsciousness in the one case (noumenal)
and anti-subconsciousness in the other case (phenomenal) are products of male
domination through either the superconscious (noumenal) or the conscious
(phenomenal), antiwill antimetachemically subordinate to the metaphysical
hegemony of soul, and antispirit antichemically subordinate to the physical
hegemony of ego. However, only the unequivocal hegemony of metaphysics over
antimetachemistry permits mind to truly flourish in superconscious freedom of
anti-unconsciousness, its antifemale counterpart. The equivocal hegemony of
physics over antichemistry, on the other hand, tends to fall victim to axial
subversion at the behest of metachemistry over antimetaphysics, and therefore such egocentric
consciousness as obtains is usually vitiated by anti-subconsciousness to the
greater glory or, rather, power of the unconscious. For where the unconscious
is sovereign, even consciousness must toe an anti-subconscious line.