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It has just come to me that mathematician is one who is capable of α and that it has its consequence:
He can see the essential characters in, say, the paranoid–s1 and depressive positions; or the oedipal situation; or the primal scene; or any other. These situations, or complexes, are seen concretely and, at some point, in visual images. For example Euclid's geometrical patterns: They can easily be visual lines which are made abstract. (Similarly the word ‘dog‘ can be an abstraction.) Hence: