Concepts such as soul, truth, justice, and love, aren't pre-packaged, static givens. They are, in each moment and instance of their aliveness, performative. They are made anew at each encounter through the conscious act of thinking them, thus enlivening, and expanding their definitions as concepts.
The alchemists graced us with concepts from which the psychological methodology of interiority can drink languidly; concepts such as the noetic fluidity implicit within “permanent water”, and the internal contradiction of “the stone that is not a stone, and only a stone.” These invisible realities can only be accessed through the act of thinking. They are held within consciousness. No one can take your hand and lead you to them, for they do not exist as reified, positive objects. Like life itself, they are invisible, and come into sharper focus only by their absence. They cannot be jangled in our pockets like blue marbles and house keys. They can’t be tucked in our sock drawer like old photographs.
These thoughts that think themselves into being as concepts must dance! They remain alive only by their constant movement toward re-definition. These unseen realities, such as truth, justice, love, soul - dance united by, and absolved from their own internal difference.
Permanent water. Stable fluidity. Certain uncertainty. Motherless child. Virgin birth. Human god. These are all ways to access what the psychology as the discipline of interiority terms the psychological difference - the unity of unity and difference. “So it is only in the return itself that what we return to emerges at all” (Zizek 2014). It is only by our performance of reflection that what we reflect upon comes into bein
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