ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the progressive emergence of order from disorder, predictability from unpredictability, things from processes, continuity from fluidity. It looks at ways in which the therapeutic relationship becomes similar to earlier significant relationships, otherwise called transference. At the process level, there is the new fact of ordering, which underlies our perception of space and time. There is differentiation, so that it is meaningful to say that the process here and now is other than the process there or then. In the same way as a process theory of self has to be able to account for self-continuity, a process theory of the way things are must account for the solidity of tables and people and the continuity of things. Self in this theory is knowable in its relating to a knowable world which can be for us the other.
