Mastery over nature requires repressing both desire and fear

Evidence

This diminution of desire and fear was intended to make it possible, with constant presence of mind, to wrest existence from nature, which was either viewed with indifference or seen as an enemy. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 358

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the psychic prerequisites of the enlightenment project: dispassion, presence of mind, and a nature stripped of the promise of happiness.
• XREF: connects to: Mastery over nature becomes mastery over other humans, weakening the individual.; Barbarism is what lets mind master itself and stay open to nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 329; Suppressing myth converts fear of nature into superstition and nature-domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 358 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mastery over nature becomes mastery over other humans, weakening the individual.; Barbarism is what lets mind master itself and stay open to nature — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 329; Suppressing myth converts fear of nature into superstition and nature-domination — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 358 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Rational self-preservation conquers nature only by imitating nature’s own rigidity #expands (0.92) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 63
• Submission to mythic command simultaneously liberates the repressed nature within #complicates (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 71