The analyser and the analysed

Good morning everyone,

Well, it's stopped rainy!

Here is todays' quote:

Please do follow this carefully. There is the analyser and the thing to be analysed. We have never questioned who the analyser is. He is obviously one of the many fragments and he proceeds to analyse the whole structure of oneself. But the analyser himself, being a fragment, is conditioned. When he analyses there are several things involved. First of all, every analysis must be complete or otherwise it becomes the stone round the neck of the analyser when he begins to analyse the next incident, the next reaction. So the memory of the previous analysis increases the burden. And analysis also implies time; there are so many reactions, associations and memories to be analysed that it will take all your life. By the time you have completely analysed yourself—if that is ever possible—you are ready for the grave.

Beyond Violence, p 102

Here is my reflection.

So analysis must be like fire. To actually be effective it must analyse everything. If there is something left, something not understood, it remains in the memory, in the unconscious, of the analyser. It must include an awareness of the analysis itself. And analysis does imply time. As you analyse you accumulate information and knowledge, fitting the clues together. But this allows the analyser the authority of anlysis; the analysis then depends upon the analyser.

Best wishes

Robert