Logocentrism and Logocentric People (Part 2)

Abstract. The second part of the article discusses psychological differences between men and women, related to interhemispheric functional brain asymmetry, as well as development of two types of life in the Neolithic Age - settled farming and nomadic cattle breeding, determined by these differences. The author argues that state formation was the result of blending of the two forms.

Key words. Gender issues in culture, interhemispheric functional asymmetry, settled farming, nomadic cattle breeding, state

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[40] This doesn’t refer to the so-called matriarchate meant by Bachofen, which was absent even where women sacrificers dominated.
[41] It can be justifiably assumed that the idea of a non-nomadic life is determined by domination of the feminine cultural psychological type. Explanations related to the factor of nature, like environmental conditions, etc., do not work in this case, as there are enough examples of tribes, living in the similar conditions, some of which started a non-nomadic life, while other didn’t.
[42] Being extremely multifaceted, the process of peoples’ movement and interactions in the specified period and in later historical times, dating back to 3-2 с. BC, is difficult to reconstruct even as a overall scheme. So the above said should be understood as a pre-existing and rough generalization.
[43] Such a position is typical for history as viewed by feminists.
[44] Permanent movement and of blending ethnic groups, being the main form of self-organization and self-tuning of sociocultural communities, occurred without any mixture, too.
[45] Later, this line of development initiated extra intricate identities, developing genetically independently of the state and being its alternative.
[46] This is an inherent aspiration of any evolutionizing system.
[47] Cultural lag is not accidental in this case. At the early stages of vertical evolutional breakthroughs their representatives strongly fall behind those succeeding in horizontal evolution. In this context it concerns Neolith farming.  
[48] If such disadvantages appeared, they were not stronger than in state.
[49] According to a popular utilitarian conception, it is directly connected with the nationhood emergence. However, if tasks of military organization had determined genesis of state so fundamentally, its forms, structure and viability would have depended on military circumstances to a much larger extent than it can be traced in history.
[50] Long-preserved matriarchal traditions in Crete are not surprising: being established by mainly natives of Neolithic Anatolia, the Cretan civilization for a long time remained in insularity and isolation.
[51] The psychoanalytical aspect of this liberation was considered by C. Jung, O. Rank and, particularly, E. Neumann. However, no direct links between psychoanalytical studies and historical background have been made yet.
[52] Exaggeration of such universalism has a long tradition from early Christian writers (and later, Muslim theologians) to Medieval scholastics and the last-century philosophy, ranging from E. Sapir to B. L. Whorf. Its apotheosis was their statement that we can conceive only in the framework of things expressed in language. In this connection, we wonder how to explain the difference between red and blue to a blind person? As everybody having a certain empirical experience can conceive it.