The Power of Unanalyzed Dreams (Idealic Spaces Part 2)

Imagine a video of someone dropping an egg. It falls to the floor, and smashes. Now dismantle the video into stills. Can you re-assemble the time-line? Of course you can…Eggs don’t spontaneously un-smash. If you saw that, you’d know the snaps had been arranged backwardly.

-Nick Land

Condensation

When you analyze a dream, you take something which is in a way, perfect and self-contained, and subject it to a conscious process after the fact. The conscious process has the potential to feedback into the dream, making more dreams.

Dreams are the intuitive material of the psyche. They are in a basic sense, the most authentic and immediate version of ourselves. The truth of our psyche is what gets analyzed and subjected to the truth process of itself, a secondary and conscious truth of a concept. The art piece and the egg are subjected to philosophy. The truth of force is the opposite. Philosophy is the subject of the art piece, the egg, the condensed molecule.

Condensation in psychoanalysis is the phenomena of wishes, anxieties, events from the past, and predictions about the future condensing in the individual psyche to create a dream image which represents more reality than is immediately apparent. The effect is much like the AI image, which condenses ideas together, although it does not have anxiety or wishes like a human does.

Condensation in a cloud is the phenomena of water evaporating and becoming a cloud. Logic too evaporates, so does desire and anxiety. It forms a cloud in our mind, the dream.

If you hoped dreams stayed inside your mind because they are difficult, the good news is that they do. Sort of. Not really. Reality also has the property of condensation, where material begins to move around and condense to form our world, based on individual psyches and their affect on material.

The Power of Dreams

The Unanalyzed Dream functions like a narrative myth. It hides its force within itself and presents itself phenomenologically in an intuitive manner. It does not need to reflect on itself, it is immediate. It carries with it force that the analyzed dream does not. The analyzed dream decodes, and once the code is decoded, it can be read, which is to say, hacked. Unanalyzed dreams; being immediate, happen so quickly and contain so much force that they act as a buffer against the hack of analysis.

Some claim analysts are hacks, but rather the truth is that analysis is a hack. It hacks into the force of coded myths which want to operate in the realm of the veil, and unveils them for what they are.

When this is the symptom in a clinic, it is done mutually. In a debate, two people analyze and hack each other to bits, trying to decrease the force of what their opponent is advocating for.

You might thing that if you want to harness the power of dreams, that you should avoid debate club. Have you heard of penetration testing? This is where companies pay people to hack their systems so that they can make their systems stronger. In the same way, analysis is not an absolute antithesis to the power of the dreams, in fact it can make those dreams much more powerful.

Analysis is not the end goal of analysis, the dream is. The most immediate self is what we want to be treated, not its superfiscial coverings, nor its tendrils of logical, partial self-reflection.

We thirst for the real thing, which is to say our immediate selves that we get acquainted with in dreams.

Immediacy and authenticity are the same thing, and mental health requires attention to this dimension of our psyche. We want our immediate intuition about our immediate selves to be immediately satisfied. But there are obstacles to our immediate desire, and we must navigate them succesfully, without the egg smashing, Humpty Dumpty style.

Self-Discovery

To discover our desire is not enough, we have to discover what is antithetical to our desires as well. What is a Real obstacle, rather than a symbolic obstacle? How do we really navigate challenges? This is the realm of mental health. Caring for your egg.

Dialectically, The Obstacle to understanding the self as Self-Discovery and Real Obstacles is to create an abstract version of the self which seperates concepts and desire. It is always Ego-Concept, desire-Concept, never concept alone. Buddhism challenges desire itself, psychoanalysis challenges Ego-Ideal, desire-concept, ego-concept, all words to describe the synthetic field of what we say and why we say it, which are undiremptable, a philosophical substance which is indivisable.

Once we have discovered the self, ourselves, our desires as sublated into concepts, Ego-Ideals, and confirmed that yes, we really do submit our allegiance to our ideals, we can begin to think of obstacles.

Here meta-ideas come up regarding flexibility, and general openness. These are not without merit. Should any concept be taken seriously? Or is all for nought? I’d recommend keeping this antithesis, the nothingness of all concepts in mind while advocating for your Real Self.

Don’t let the nothingness of all concepts prevent you from dreaming. There is no substitute in mental health for The Ego Substance, which is the dimension of immediate authenticity as present in the Unanalyzed Dream. All analysis serves this immediate intuition, even if our immediate intuition draws us towards places that merit analysis and re-direction.

We engage with the world by analyzing it, but also by moving it with our dreams. The material of the world is not just material, it is Hyperstate, impacted by subject and object. It is only important insofar as it relates to some living thing, human or otherwise.

It’s important to follow your dreams.