of them. We can now live, not just amphibiously in divided and 
distinguished worlds, but pluralistically in many worlds and 
cultures simultaneously. We are no more committed to one 
culture—to a single ratio among the human senses—any more 
than to one book or to one language or to one technology. Our 
need today is, culturally, the same as the scientist’s who seeks 
to become aware of the bias of the instruments of research in 
order to correct that bias. Compartmentalizing of human 
potential by single cultures will soon be as absurd as specialism 
in subject or discipline has become. It is not likely that our age 
is more obsessional than any other, but it has become 
sensitively aware of the conditions and fact of obsession 
beyond any other age. However, our fascination with all phases 
of the unconscious, personal and collective, as with all modes 
of primitive awareness, began in the eighteenth century with 
the first violent revulsion against print culture and mechanical