Bear with me, many people think that I am completely crazy when I say what I am about to say but I think that it has some relevance to the rest of the seminar. ... I need to make it clear that I am using a metaphor to explain the baby's state of mind. ... By internal world I am talking about the world we inhabit in our minds. ... As a psychoanalyst I believe that these three domains all have importance but today I am obviously concerned mostly with the third domain, that of the internal world. ... Of course I am interested in the ways in which all of this can go wrong. ...
I believe Lessing wanted to emphasize the characteristics of men of the construction class. ... does this mean that Harry is not a male chauvinist pig after all?? ... Tom, I believe was under the impression "hey, I saw it all! This sight was especially for me, I mean something to her, that's why I was the one to see her naked". ... I also believe that Tom feels special because he believes that he had given her the attention that she needed. ...
He even doubted his senses, to wit: "All that I have, up to this moment, accepted as possessed of the highest truth and certainty, I received either from or through the senses. ... If he doubted then this could only mean that he is thinking. ... Thus "Cogito Ergo Sum" or "I think therefore I am." He opined that the doubter must exist to do the doubting and that it is the 'I' that thinks, and only the 'I' that exist. ... He observed that the truth 'I think therefore I am' was so solid that it become the first principle of philosophy he...