{Amnesia [& an Algebra for the Unconscious]}[2nd May 1987]

[Redbook3:223][19870502:1025b]{Amnesia [& an Algebra for the Unconscious]}[2nd May 1987]

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Rather alarmingly – having finished*, pushed it as far as I can (and perhaps further than I ought), tidied up and stared at it for a while – I find that just as I started without any clear idea of what I was going to write, so I now have no clear idea** of what I have written, or even written about – except that it was to do with symbols. With a small effort, though, it comes back.

The whole thing has become too much to hold in conscious thought at one time – probably a good thing, convenient for manipulation by unconscious parts,*** which simply present the results.

*[See last previous entry.]

**cf. IV.48. Why should I need to remember it? <870817>

***[For those encountering personal difficulty from a literal approach to all this, it might help to see the continuing exploration of these pre-existing symbols and their possible (experiential, historical, statistical or logical) relationships as an attempt to discover or develop a type of algebra for the unconscious, or for a part of it: that is, a symbolic vocabulary, and a logical syntax (or in linguistic terms a grammar) based initially on simple geometric relationships. Such an endeavour might be eccentric, maybe misguided, misdirected, and possibly doomed to failure, but, however speculative, it would not in itself be pointless or completely insane. <20160604>]

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