CONQUEST (and cinemaesthesia)

I woke up with a range of hypnopompic resonances
constellated in the term

{{ conquest }}

and then and a little phenomenology
led me to

{{ conquest AS human nature }}

that is, the instinctual drive for conquest

as carrying forth magical>mythic and mental projections
(defense-mechanisms, shame-desires, fantasies, identifications)

and consequently the advanced sublimations of
religion, science, the arts—civilization—as

{{ conquest OF that very nature }}

presentiating now in the processes of imagining our reality
that we are now practicing in the transmutation of world life
through the Kleinian turn of

{{ cinemaesthetic conquest }}

* * *

writing this, I can surely feel something of the leitmotif
of 2001: a space odyssey, Kubrick's practice of cinematic alchemy
to portray mythically the transmutations of the archaic>magical
and mental-rational>integral...

and also comes to me, from the alchemical tradition, The Axiom of Ostanes:

A NATURE IS DELIGHTED BY ANOTHER NATURE,
A NATURE CONQUERS ANOTHER NATURE,
A NATURE DOMINATES ANOTHER NATURE.

* * *

this waking sequence specifically arises with my deep and ongoing contemplations of
Spanish colonialism here at the northernmost center of Spanish imperial power
in the New World: Monterey...

and the forces of conquest that informed the missionary impulse
experienced by the indigenous peoples here beginning in the late 18th century

rapidly transmuting—as those peoples were almost completely exterminated—
with the influx of Anglo-European and American civilization as it now exists here
less than two-and-a-half centuries later...

* * *

conquer: from L. conquirere, "to search for, procure by effort, win," from L. com- + quaerere "to seek, acquire" (see query).

query: from L. quaere, "ask," imperative of quaerere "to seek, gain, ask," probably ultimately from PIE *kwo-

kwo-: derivatives include who, whether, either, quorum, quip, quality...who, whose, whose, what, why, which, how, when, whence, whither, where, whether, either, neither, quibble, hidalgo, quiddity, quasi, quote, quotidian, quotient, aliquot, quantity, cue, ubiquity