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HISTORY OF THE MACHINE 27
on society (crime), and various aspects of Sex, fear of separation, loss, etc. The system of fear is related to other emotional systems, anger, jealousy, love, etc., with complicated results.1
Regression is the path to phantasy. There is no doubt that a very large number of Cinema-goers regress to a primitive state, and to childhood in sight of their favourite " stars." They put themselves unconsciously into star parts. They are carried back to their earliest days to find their old mythological heroes and heroines clothed in flesh and blood and no longer dreams but actualities representing desires projected into living symbols.
Human beings have a habit of regressing as a means of progression. In the quaint words of a philosopher they like to look into, unto the onto for material for a fresh start whenever they come to a dead wall. When the famous Professor Patrick Geddes planned his new sociological world he said, " there shall be little chapels of meditation everywhere to which human beings may retire for rest and meditation and so escape for a time the hard realities of the material world and meditate upon the past, and so enter a world of phantasy to re-emerge with their ideas remodelled." Thus back, unconsciously it may be, to scratch, returning laden with the new phantasies or revitalised inner desires to be consciously projected in fresh symbols of a new form of human life.
Sometimes the regression is a mass one. As soon as a nation comes to a full stop, realises that it has ceased to advance towards a more tolerable form of social life than the immediate one, a regressive process sets in. Take Soviet Russia. Before the Revolution, Russia had ceased to progress. The Revolution took place. An enormous mass of people was suddenly promised liberation and advance. It was encouraged to wish for these things. That was the first step. It could find nothing in the existing order of things to satisfy the wish. So came
1 a The Foundations of Character," Alexander F. Shand, contains an analysis of the systems of the emotions.