this endless procession of luminous shapes of darknes, of blindind lights full of dark stories passing through everything my mind can envision thoughts slowly growing like trees with imaginary roots to dygest to recycle the unbearably bearable a true psychic cosmology cause life creates by destroying, destroys by creating I need to examine my dreams, not the alphabet of dreaming -symbolic transformation, not equation- the terror to be so alive in an unresponsive world it is pain that turns my thoughts into wax figures I want to deny that words have a heart of stone cause they might deny their nature in the beginning was the word, or the emotional field, the primeval soup of vibrations you are not what you know, you are not what you perceive, you are the one to be felt and let go of we are all that is unbearably bearable
In a "symbolic equation" (Segal, 1978), the person cannot distinguish between the symbol and the thing symbolized. The symbolic equation denies separateness between self and object, whereas symbolic representation bridges prior loss.