A retrospective series
Unthought Known is the title of one of my most favourite Pearl Jam songs.
After reading and analysing the lyrics, I realised what the song is about.
The Unthought Known is a phrase borrowed from the British psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas. His idea originates from the psychoanalytic encounter between analyst and analysand.
In short, the “Unthought Known” hints at a purposeful bringing-into-view of something known in the emotional, physical and perhaps imaginal life of the individual (or organization), that has eluded formulation. Once this something is brought forward from its primary undifferentiated or proto-thinking state, or out of shadow, it makes a subtle difference to how things are subsequently understood or taken up in thought. It discloses new meaning, a turning over of the soil of thought so that new ideas, questions or realities might emerge.
In the upcoming time, I am going to create a series on this, trying to better understand the person I am.
Stay tuned….
PJ Lyrics: All the thoughts you never see You are always thinking Brain is wide, the brain is deep Oh, are you sinking? Feel the path of every day Which road you taking? Breathing hard, making hay Yeah, this is living Look for love in evidence That you're worth keeping Swallowed whole in negatives It's so sad and sickening Feel the air up above Oh, pool of blue sky Fill the air up with love All black with starlight Feel the sky blanket you With gems and rhinestones! See the path cut by the moon For you to walk on For you to walk on... Nothing left, nothing left Nothing there, nothing here... Nothing left, nothing left Nothing there, nothing left... Nothing left, nothing left Nothing there, nothing here... See the path cut by the moon For you to walk on See the waves on distant shores Awaiting your arrival Dream the dreams of other men You'll be no one's rival Dream the dreams of others then You will be no one's rival You will be no one's rival... A distant time, a distant space That's where we're living A distant time, a distant place So what ya giving? What ya giving?
