ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the meaning of one of W. R. Bion's concepts—that of common sense (CS), which to us seems to be fundamental. The emotions fulfil a similar function for the psyche to that of the senses in relation to objects in space and time. Indolence can be the need to remain free to indulge phantasy: again, common sense is the obstructing force. The things that join the "common sense view"—the point of view of CS—to the "common emotional view" is the possibility of correlating, and the possibility that the correlations converge into defining an experience. The "selected fact" allows an individual to correlate and thus give sense to a series of elements that were seemingly lacking in any relationship: a fact is chosen based upon the way in which many other facts take on a meaning. Instead, CS is a sense that may be conscious but more often than not is unconscious.
