Spinal Catastrophism, viii–viii

Chapter

List of Figures

EXCERPT

Fig. 1. The axes of terrestrial life 12
Fig. 2. Advent of the anterior field 42
Fig. 3. In what furnace was thy brain? 43
Fig. 4. Bodkin’s theory of Neuronics 80
Fig. 5. Comparison of Steno’s cross-section of the brain and Kircher’s cross-section of the geocosm 87
Fig. 6. Steno’s Geognostic Law of Stratigraphic Superposition 88
Fig. 7. The saurian sacrum brain-plexus 97
Fig. 8. An amphisbaena, or two-headed snake 98
Fig. 9. A belated attempt to return to a symmetrical world 100
Fig. 10. Leroi-Gourhan’s ‘spreading of the cortical fan’ 119
Fig. 11. Reich’s model of characterological armouring 142
Fig. 12. Flexion and adduction in orgasm 142
FIg. 13. Sacrum and cranium strive to reunite 142
Fig. 14. Joyous verimicular trembling 143
Fig. 15. Reichian Phyletic Ascension and Orgasmic Relapse 145
Fig, 16. Jungian geology of personality 148
Fig. 17 The parietal eye 158
Fig. 18. Kapp’s comparison of transverse cross-section of a telegraph cable to a nerve bundle 176
Fig. 19. Delusional dream-flowers of the spinal nerve-tree 190
Fig. 20. Hartmann on cephalization 197
Fig. 21. ‘Headward we gravitate toward the Sun’ 237
Fig. 22. Immanuel Kant’s skull 247
Fig 23. Kant’s lost gill-slits 251
Fig. 24. Spinal Catastrophism 287…