ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to establish a possible context for the thought, as opposed to the actual one in any given case. The challenge raised initially by Sigmund Freud's paper, however, is to discover any psychological context from which the thought would flow naturally and without gaps. The chapter analyses candidate contexts for the thought by argument and example, in somewhat the manner of a modern philosophical or linguistic investigation. Freud's analysis aside, many people experience the kind of paradoxical surprise that he describes when they encounter for the first time objects, places, or events that they have known about but not seen. The surprise that people express in the cases is no less paradoxical than it was in Freud's case. Sometimes people falsely remember events that they never actually experienced or facts that they never actually heard or read.
