ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the idea of the aesthetic dimension of the mind. The mysterious a function develops internal capacities able to deal with mental pain in such a way that it can be faced and modified. Some mental pains are inevitable, as when somebody we love dies, others are induced by neurotic or psychotic mental states rather than caused by painful facts in life. Psychoanalysis is a method for the development of the mind towards mental growth, through the alternation of becoming oneself and knowing oneself. Both are related to truth and tolerance of mental pain. The chapter suggests that using dreams, myths, and models as algebraic unknowns as well as the fictionalised personification of emotional experiences. The theory of transformations has as its perspective or vertex, O. This reflects the origin, the ultimate reality of emotional experience which is unknowable and can only be accessed through its transformations.
