ABSTRACT
Words create feelings. A poet creates feelings with words, makes new feelings when talking in the present. Melanie Klein outlines two central emotional nuclei, love and hate. Herbert Read wrote that image precedes idea by about two hundred years. The Biblical God warns against imagining and representing him. Chuang Tzu speaks of a true master with identity but no form. Wilfred R. Bion writes that he cannot represent the experience of analysis but can evoke it. There is a moment in the Bible when a group of Hebrews led by Korach challenge Moses's authority. Sigmund Freud's discussion of memory and perception is helpful insofar as one does not have to decide which is primary. Buddha sitting with suffering until it shifts to nirvana. Intense concentration on a point of experience opens the field of experience. Freud's terms, a reversal, although in Buddha's case one might argue that something new is produced, another mode of experiencing and way of approaching experience.
