1.0Homo Extensushttps://homo-extensus.ai-book.it/en/userhttps://homo-extensus.ai-book.it/en/author/user/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="60RxERTb6R"><a href="https://homo-extensus.ai-book.it/en/2025/06/12/the-psyche-of-writing/">The psyche of writing</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://homo-extensus.ai-book.it/en/2025/06/12/the-psyche-of-writing/embed/#?secret=60RxERTb6R" width="600" height="338" title="“The psyche of writing” — Homo Extensus" data-secret="60RxERTb6R" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> There is an obvious relationship between the new writing technology and the new kind of intelligence, which comes to change the structure of the human mind (psyche). In his latest book, "The Man Moses and the Monotheistic Religion," Sigmund Freud seems to intuit that the Israelites at the time of Moses invented the alphabet, and writes, "Among the precepts of the Mosaic religion is found one that is more important than one recognizes at first glance. It is the prohibition against making images of God, the imposition of worshiping a God whom no one can see. (...) when this prohibition was accepted, it had to exert a profound effect. It means in fact to postpone sensory perception to so-called abstract representation, a triumph of spirituality over sensibility, strictly speaking a pulsional renunciation with the necessary psychological consequences."