This book focuses on the tensions between processes of the mind and its products from worldviews to models of thought. Processes are described in neurobiological and evolutionary terms. Given both a relative opacity of processes and of the outside world, their dramatic quality, their closeness to ¿hysterical¿ and ¿schizophrenic¿ tendencies and, within the weakening orientating power of worldviews, an alarming catastrophic potential emerge.