ABSTRACT
The patient said he couldn’t find a pot to harmonize all the things in his studio. This would be a vagina or womb; an object like that sought by Poincaré [Science and Method, p. 30] which
must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned. Then it enables us to see at a glance each of those elements in the place it occupies in the whole. Not only is the new fact valuable on its own account, but it alone gives a value to the old facts it unites. Our mind is frail as our senses are; it would lose itself in the complexity of the world if that complexity were not harmonious; like the short-sighted, it would only see the details, and would be obliged to forget each of these details before examining the next, because it would be incapable of taking in the whole.
He adds the opinion that “the only facts worthy of our attention are those that introduce order into this complexity and so make it accessible to us”.