addendum 20.4.a to
20.4 The Work of Erich Neumann
Matriarchaal en patriarchaal
Tribal connections
In a cultural-anthropological sense we can recognize the development of the small child in the structure of matriarchal tribal relationships: In matriarchal situations we find a strong mutual bond between the female members of the clan. Apart from that, there is, more or less isolated, a male group, in which the boy's I-sense initially merges with the male group and there resonates with the clan consciousness. With advanced age, a more individual form of the male ego develops, which can result in a function for the group as a whole, for example as the wise group elder. However, the sense of I derived from this remains rooted in the collective tribal connection.
Science Nowadays
It is also interesting here that we know almost nothing from the matriarchal era: nothing was written down at the time. Historiography only begins with the ego (that is, at the entrance of the patriarchal era), because in it things are experienced as something that is present next to and outside the self: occurs around us apart from ourselves. The scientific work nowadays is actually based on this masculine conception of reality, which arises from the primary I and its perceptions. This view is based on the set-out (7.1, 10.2) of an I versus a non-I. All development comes from this duality. On the other hand, no development takes place in the matriarchal-symbiotic unity, because nothing can happen in it.
Thus we see that in the formation of a horoscope figure and everywhere else where knowledge is acquired, the I has this function: It functions as a self-contained and self-reflecting entity, while in its separateness it inevitably produces artifacts in the beliefs that it nominates.
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