ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the formulation of a theory, the few 'facts' mentioned being illustrative models intended to give body to what might otherwise be an exercise in the manipulation of abstractions. It leads up to the formulation of a theory which has as its realization a background of psycho analytic practice. The theory formulates a recurrent pattern of emotional experience of wide distribution. All psycho-analytic progress exposes a need for further investigation. There is a 'thing-in-itseir, which can never be known; by contrast, the religious mystic claims direct access to the deity with whom he aspires. In any object, material or immaterial, resides the unknowable ultimate reality, the 'thing-in-itself'. Objects have emanations or emergent qualities or evolving characteristics that impinge upon the human personality as phenomena. Of these qualities the personality may be consciously or unconsciously aware; they differ from the ultimate reality.
