ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to do justice to two avenues of approach. In one, the brain is the physical organ that leads to the mind. Through the other, much can only be learned by travelling the way offered by the awkward, sometimes unpalatable things we know about the mind through the personality and human relationships. The psychoanalyst or psychotherapist would agree with him, thinking that the sailor and others like him have some kind of image of their sweethearts in their minds extending deeply beyond conscious awareness. A therapist reacting effectively to another's state of mind will involve many different types of response. Experiences like these – the way that thoughts seem to come partly unbidden and partly as a result of what seems like fruitless mental work and preoccupation – have led some to adopt the idea that it is not thinking which produces thoughts but thoughts that call forth thinking.
