Hans Leowald

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[Sublimation: Inquires into theoretical psychoanalysis 1988- Hans Leowald]

In his final publication, Sublimation, Leowald touched on some of the cosmological implications of his mystical psychoanalysis. For [him]...the subjectivity that an infant experiences during the neonatal stage of nondifferentiation, when it conceptualizes neither self nor objects, was an objectively existing subjectivity on the part of nature.

"Individual  human mentation...would be one instances or manifestation of natura naturans [nature doing what nature does], of nature's subjectivity...[Which is] vaster, all embracing in comparison to human individual mentation. The dynamic unconscious (Freud's 'true psychic reality') is closer to subjectivity understood as nature's activity (...'oceanic feeling') and is the enabling factor, in continuity with nature's subjectivity for individual mentation and for consciousness. Ultimately it is in individual consciousness that a world of objects and an objective world are presented to a subject; one has no standing without the other. The the mechanistic view of nature in scientific materialism carries objectivism to an absurd extreme whereby subjectivity in the just outlined sense is entirely eliminated from the world. Psychoanalytic theory still struggles with this heritage but is in the forefront of efforts to break the hegemony of the modern scientific natura naturata interpretation of reality {' which is nature considered as the world of distinct substances and objects'}" H. Leowald- Sublimation...1988

Leowald argued that the existence of human subjectivity is only possible if subjectivity is an activity on the part of nature, that is, if subjectivity has ontological reality in and for nature. People can find things meaningful to them if and only if meaning as such exists as such.