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%PSYCHOSOMATIC DISEASE 771102
When a person is ill-at-ease the person is often a
victim of dis-ease. Exclusively objectively oriented
persons seek to diagnose disease in objective ways, rather
than in subjective ways. Objective doctors tend not to
look for the subjective origin of a dis-ease, the
factors which made the person ill-at-ease---and so the
origin of the illness. They are familiar with objective
technologies, but relatively unaware of subjective living
and subjective living and subjective technologies. As a
result they are insensitive to the correlations between
the occasions for being ill-at-ease and the kinds of dis-
ease occasioned. They attempt to cure the
symptoms of unhealthy subjective cultural contexts without
being aware of those contexts, much as a person who tries
to cure measles with cosmetics which can cover the
superficial symptoms of the disease. It is futile to use
medical technologies to attempt to cover the fact that
many of our diseases are occasioned by our being ill-at-
ease due to unhealthy subjective cultural contexts.
Our unhealthy subjective cultural contexts are
usually manifestations of conflicts between two or more of
our culture's highest values. Creative conflicts between
positive tendencies and degenerate TENDENCIES can be
healthy and give meaning to our lives. Such conflicts
invigorate us and give us psychic ease even in the midst
of vigorous activity of various modalities: physical,
mental, emotional, spiritual, social, institutional, etc.
Conflicts between two positive TENDENCIES can be
unhealthy and give occasion for dis-ease. We find it
difficult to admit to ourselves that there is any
inconsistency between our positive values, especially if
in an idolatrous way we have come to value each of them
ultimately. We can not call into question our ultimate
values, even when they are in conflict with each other. As
a result we internalize in our bodies such ultimate
conflicts and thereby occasion many of the diseases which
technocratic physicians attempt to cure by purely
objective technologies. They value objectivity so highly
and exclusively that they become blind to important
subjective perceptions about people who are dis-eased by
the culture's conflicting ultimate values.
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