[Undated — 1969]

The capacity of the mind depends on the capacity of the unconscious – Negative Capability. Inability to tolerate empty space limits the amount of space available. The paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions are related to a part of the domain of thought, that part of it in which there exist thinkers corresponding to the thoughts awaiting someone or something to think them. The thinkers can be impinged upon by thoughts that are too powerful in relation to the sensitivity of the receiving apparatus. The source of emission of the received or evolved thoughts is felt as external, God-given, derived from a particular person or occasion, phrase, book, painting, awareness of a constant conjunction. The craving for validation may then be a wish to localize the emitter in God, universe, person, conscious and unconscious, by instruments that are micro- or macro-scopic and appear to confer authoritatively the guerdon of truth.