ABSTRACT
This chapter clarifies a pervasive topic, that of orders/levels of complexity, constraining contexts, and dependent hierarchies in which higher (environments) constrain lower levels but are more diverse and complex. Confusion between, or conflation of the real and the imaginary (and/or taking the symbolic to be only either), and/or levels, leads to false opposition and binary divisions. Codes classify (often dichotomously, always hierarchically) relationships, combinations, rules. But ‘By recognizing that rules may be broken, one recognizes that rule governed systems are open to innovation’. Central to all of this is empowered mediation by men and consequential oscillation by women. The dominant mediator in the structured divide and rule is competition between men (not competition between women, actual as that may be) and this is mediated by competition between commodities and corporations in our society.
