Chapters 9 and 10 of Menninger\u2019s book should be read with the last few blogs in mind.\u00a0 Menninger could \u201chear\u201d that \u201csomething was wrong\u201d, yet he could not correctly identify \u201cwhat that \u2018something\u2019 was\u201d.\u00a0 He could not because he could not see into the future.<\/p>\n
40 years later, the reader cannot help seeing that Menninger was swimming in the waters of Progressivism and looking towards the ark of Christendom.\u00a0 Now, we are deeper in the waters.\u00a0 We are further from the boat.<\/p>\n
The \u201cmorality gap\u201d that Menninger announced on pages 192 and 226 only makes sense in regards to a changing of public symbolic orders from Christianity to Progressivism.\u00a0 Menninger struggled to put it into perspective, but he could not.\u00a0 He presented his interpretation, but \u2013 like all interpretations in psychoanalysis \u2013 his interpretation must be regarded as provisional.<\/p>\n
In trying to understand how Menninger\u2019s interpretation \u201cmissed the mark\u201d, we have constructed a new \u2013 semiotic \u2013 tool.<\/p>\n
The crossing of two nested forms, one horizontal and one vertical, is the hard-won gift bestowed by Whatever Happened to Sin?<\/em><\/p>\n The intersecting nested forms visualize what Menninger was trying to convey: On the vertical axis, there is a choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chapters 9 and 10 of Menninger\u2019s book should be read with the last few blogs in mind.\u00a0 Menninger could \u201chear\u201d that \u201csomething was wrong\u201d, yet he could not correctly identify \u201cwhat that \u2018something\u2019 was\u201d.\u00a0 He could not because he could not see into the future. 40 years later, the reader cannot help seeing that Menninger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n