Succession

the totem pole, which shows a vertical succession of ancestors, one standing on top of another. This totemic succession is a good image of the patriarchal transmission, which rests on the home truth that each generation of men stands on the shoulders of the last.

Beebe identifies succession as the defining image of patriarchal transmission, arguing that the intergenerational relay of masculine identity is both archetypal and historically fragile.

Beebe, John, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017thesis

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When there is succession, there is the possibility [that a] foreign agency will step in the gap. When there is succession, one after another, there will be a gap, [and] it will be filled with foreign matter (foreign matter, i.e., vikalpa).

In the Kashmiri Shaiva commentary tradition, succession is technically distinguished from continuity: the discreteness of successive moments creates vulnerability to the intrusion of conceptual noise (vikalpa), making unbroken chain-awareness the spiritual ideal.

Singh, Jaideva, Vijnana Bhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization, 1979thesis

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mahodaya will rest in śāmbhavopāya, and this succession will be of āṇavopāya.

The commentary situates succession within the hierarchical schema of tantric means (upāyas), identifying it with the lowest, most effortful mode of practice rather than with the higher spontaneous awareness.

Singh, Jaideva, Vijnana Bhairava: The Manual for Self-Realization, 1979supporting

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Time is for the Mind a mobile extension measured out by the succession of the past, present and future in which Mind places itself at a certain standpoint whence it looks before and after.

Aurobindo defines temporal succession as a specifically mental construction — the mind's analytical division of a continuous flow into discrete before-and-after moments.

Aurobindo, Sri, The Life Divine, 1939supporting

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Sva- is applied to the person who forms part of the same tight group; this term plays an important role in legal provisions affecting property, inheritance or the succession to titles and honors.

Benveniste demonstrates that succession to titles and honors is encoded in the most archaic Indo-European vocabulary of selfhood and group belonging, linking legal succession to the concept of personal identity.

Benveniste, Émile, Indo European Language and Society, 1973supporting

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nacheinander : successive, succession … But cf. Sukzession (Succession); Sich-jagen (rapid succession, H. 322)

Heidegger's glossary distinguishes the ordinary sequential sense of succession (nacheinander) from rapid or driven succession (Sich-jagen), signaling a phenomenological interest in temporality's different modes.

Heidegger, Martin, Being and Time, 1962supporting

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the daughter remains attached to the paternal hearth after marriage … It is literally in her that her father's line is continued by a new male.

Vernant's analysis of the epikleros institution shows succession operating through an inverted matrimonial structure in which the female body serves as the medium of patrilineal continuity.

Vernant, Jean-Pierre, Myth and Thought Among the Greeks, 1983supporting

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a man who has no son takes the chosen heir of his possessions into his own family by adoption. Inheritance and adoption invariably accompany each other in such cases.

Rohde establishes that in Greek antiquity, the succession of soul-cult obligations — ensuring ongoing care for the dead — was the primary driver of adoption, fusing psychological with legal succession.

Rohde, Erwin, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality among the Greeks, 1894supporting

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Il ne pense point à profiter de toute sa succession, ni s'attirer une donation générale de tous ses biens, s'il s'agit surtout de les enlever à un fils, le légitime héritier.

La Bruyère's portrait of Onuphre uses the legal term 'succession' (inheritance) to expose hypocritical piety that stops short of defrauding a legitimate heir, illustrating the moral weight attached to the proper transmission of property.

Auerbach, Erich, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1953aside

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