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There is a scarcity of time; a scarcity of knowledge; scarcity of ability. Therefore choice becomes of fundamental importance – choice of time, theories, and facts observed.
Wisdom borrowed – future wisdom after the event. Prophecy wise after the event.
Prophecy without foresight. Prophetic hindsight.
Prophetic Backsight. Regrets to come by Forthright Forethought.
Insight by Backsight.
Freud, in Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety ([1926d (1925)], p. 138), is curiously one-sided. Surely emotional experience is common to foetus, mother and father, but emotions and ideas may be compatible or incompatible. [See opposite page for Bion's annotations in the 1949 edition, The International Psycho-Analytical Library, No. 28, p. 108.]