# Pathomatics The underlying logical pattern in the development of a series of cohesive, phallic engagements. That is: how *the two-headed phallus* keeps its own intersubjectivity intact. The four constructive steps of potential, actual, directed and transcendental energy, which follow upon each other within pathomatics, can advantageously be compared with their destructive opposites in *the four steps within nihilist development*, from naive via cynical to ironic and finally affirmative nihilism. If narratology is the priest's most important task, pathomatics is the chieftain's most important contribution to the sociont.