Note 315

The organismic molecule may still go after having lost certain parts, without losing thereby its qualitative and ESF-al framework-wholeness nature. The effect of the dropping of a part is highly dependent on the organization (for instance the presence of the metamerous condition [concatenation of similar body-segments in an organism], and the highest immunity against mutilation is found in plants.). But it [losing a part] is never without any effect at all. Seen in the context of wholeness, every pathologist, and especially the psychiatrist, can confirm the effect of an unharmoniously disturbed ESF. Even in proverbial expressions this result exists (beware of the branded. The more crooked, the more wicked, etc.). The, more or less with the qualitative degree of the damage concomitant, irritability and increased psycholability of most disabled people has been sought to make understandable to fellow men psychoanalytically with arguments of supercompensation or with sensitivity reactions, as against mere stupidity or clumsiness. And in this, one surely is right. But an essential source is simply the disharmonic, damaged, as to the overall organismic chemical constitution, ESF, the most visible expression of it [ESF] being the psychic. Roughly expressed, the bodily crippled would have a crippled mind, with, as perhaps in contrast to the "purely" bodily [crippling], a somewhat more favorable ability of compensatory partial regeneration.

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