ABSTRACT
Part I was delivered to the British Psychological Society in 1947. I do not remember what I said, and I do not suppose that anyone has even heard of it; so everyone, including myself, can be said to start more or less fair. Even with regard to language there are similar advantages and disadvantages because I propose to use English—my English—which you do not know, and you use your English, which I don’t know. There are similarities however; so there is liable to be a prejudice on both sides that when you use, or I use, what appears to be the same word, our different memories will lead both parties to think they understand each other. In this respect both parties suffer from memory; and since you probably want to understand, and I want to make myself understood, both parties also suffer from desire. I propose, therefore, to make the best of a bad job by illustrating what I want to communicate, and to do this by using your presence and mine as a source of illustrations of what I wish to communicate.
