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“O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest atom stirs or lives in matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.”
My main intention in this paper is to elucidate the mind-body question by a convergent analysis of the deepest theories of both separately. This dilemma, perhaps the most intractable and anxiety-ridden in the history of Western thought, is also the most urgent and personal—the plight of each individual being its unique working-out (resolution, if not solution). The problem is usually approached theoretically by discerning analogies in the two domains, but such analogies are often cheap or trite. To say something interesting, I will try not merely to connect analagous terms (such as energy and time), but rather enter into both theories in some depth to bring out correspondences in the structures of each theory as a whole. This resembles the theoretical strategy by which Freud, in locating a structural analogy of dreams and symptoms, revealed a deep common substrate in Reality, and thus inaugurated basic psychoanalytic theory.
According to my level of expertise, the discussion of quantum mechanics will comprise only an exposition of the theory's basic structure—hopefully bringing this out clearly. Then I will turn to an explication of psychoanalytic metapsychology. I will focus on the psychoanalytic theory of the subjective origin (psychogenesis) of space and time. I will then juxtapose these two basic theories of mind and matter, concentrating