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We humans contain multitudes. We do not have an internal world; we have many internal worlds. Time, circumstance, and the maturational processes will alter those worlds as we move through the life cycle. When we come for psychoanalysis, we will inevitably enact axioms from the many differing worlds inhabited by the self.
The assumed identifies three interrelated unconscious phenomena. First, the self's erroneous assumption that consciousness comprehends the stream of unconscious contents passing through it in the here and now. Second, mental "constellations", forms of memory that collect into a dense inner object, so that when the self thinks about one aspect of the constellation, the entirety feels as if it is there. Third, those forms of knowledge derived entirely from the "unthought known": the knowledge that arrives out of actions and interactions.
This cluster of unconscious assumptions are crucial to human thinking and behavior. Therefore, identifying this realm offers useful perspectives on the self and on clinical practice to enable analytical work in these areas. When the assumed is weakened or breaks down, we are witness to psychotic processes, and the restoration of mental well-being is a crucial priority and must precede the search for meanings.
Mental Axioms and Lived Experience: On Character and the Assumed opens vital new perspectives to expand psychoanalytic thinking and understanding of the individual, society, and human nature. This makes it essential reading for practising clinicians, trainees, academics, and those of us interested in the complexities of the human mind.
Contents
Prelude
Acknowledgements
About the author
Getting to this point
The assumed
Sanity and the assumed
A comfortable companionship
The maternal order
Daydreaming
Making love
Free association?
Obliged to assume
Constellations of thought
The feel of thought
Losing one's mind
The unthought known
Psychic genera
Who is speaking to whom?
Self by day, self by night
A matter of technique
Character analysis and axiomatic change
Notes
Index
