ABSTRACT

In the model of the mind that the author using the geographical dimension can be subdivided, for phenomenological purposes, into six distinct areas: the external world, the womb, the interior of external objects, the interior of internal objects, the internal world, and the delusional system. The external world has a concrete reality which calls forth adaptational processes, fundamentally meaningless. The delusional system is also meaningless in a different way, being delusional in its significances and bizarre in its objects. The splitting processes bring relief by deploying the links to separate objects, thus also splitting the, self in its emotional capabilities and experiences. These splitting processes do not necessarily reduce the experiences to an adaptational level—in which thinking about meaning, which necessarily includes value, would be replaced by scheming, logic derived from basic assumptions, and actions aimed at success.