Zergeisterung

The term »Zergeisterung« means a specific process of spiritual and mental development. The word is a chiffre, that is ideal for those cases of speaking – for example – about schizophrenia, dissociation or borderline, using these termini technici for diseases merely in a metaphoric sense, placed in a context of changes in whole society and substracted the definite allocation into a pathological area.

Zergeisterung means therewith first and foremost an intellectual attitude of ambivalence, accepting a certain relativity of all truth. A symbol for Zergeisterung is the head of the Roman god Janus; furthermore the eye, the spiral and the labyrinth.

In addition to it Zergeisterung reflects a special quality of that attitude, indicatable with terms like disillusion or with speaking about an open, that means: non-self-contained system.

Finally Zergeisterung responds to the development of ideas generally, scriptured in the European enlightenment and globalized to date. The term has a relation to spiritedness and enthusiasm, but it is not antagonistical.

The German word Zergeisterung is not translatable.

Postmodern may it be called, that we have recognized that all our categories are constructed, pregnant with old metaphysics and the policy of colonialism and imperialism.

Our aim is to build a transnational network. We want to publish essays on this website concerning the following topics: Grammar and metaphysics, structures of Ego, Selfcraft, Zergeisterung, hallucinaphoric arts.