[Undated]

This chapter includes the capacity to have visual images amongst the factors in a-function, but it is only one factor – though an important one. It makes storage possible because visual images are a kind of notation. Freud described the conscious as “the sense organ for the perception of psychical qualities”. His attacks on α-function make it impossible to become conscious or unconscious, but he can have a conscious and an unconscious, so he is able to perceive psychic qualities. In distinction to the method of employing α-elements are two others: they can be strung together temporarily, in time, in a narrative sequence; and they can be connected logically, which is linear as in Euclid.