So we're building theory.
Which is to say we are building understanding. But the felt sense is already an understanding.
So the question is how come if the felt sense is already an understanding,
building a theory from it is more understanding, is different from understanding, is further
understanding. You have to know what a theory is in order to play In 10 and 11, because you're
trying to make a theory, and if you've never seen one then it's not possible to make one. And there
are not many good examples of really theory except in the in the natural sciences and in mathematics.
But what we do have in in other fields is little bits of theory. So for example Freud has a lot of
theory. He has this theory about energy. About libidinal, libidinal energy, sexual energy, just
energy. Then he has things like when the energy goes forward that's called discharging. And then
when you have repression you are forbidden to to to come forward, then the energy gets repressed.
Which by which he means that it's still under there. Pushing all the time. And then there's
a third possibility not repressed and not forward and that third possibility is called sublimation.
This is like when when teenagers are full of sexual energy, but they do a lot of athletics.
So they run and they jump and they fight and they play ball and all that and that sublimates a lot
of the energy. Now an interesting theoretical thing is he makes a really important distinction
between sublimating and repressing. Do you get it ? If it's repressed it's still under there,
if it's sublimated it's gone. That's a very important distinction. Then you can
look through all his concepts and it's always there again. So this is a theory. It has an
explanation that makes sense. Now whether you believe it or not depends on other things.
Testing it and other theories on, you don't have to believe it. Even without believing it
when you hear it you say oh or aha or I see or I understand.
And then Jung has a different theory. But he has the same point in there. Jung says there are these
archetypes meaning certain very basic collective human ways. To be the interesting thing about a
human being is to individualize. Which means to find your own way. To differentiate, to develop,
to be more complicated. And then he has this very interesting point. From his theory he says yes you
can find your own way you don't have to do what all the humanity does. You don't have to obey
your culture, you can make up your own way. But. You have to check whether the energy discharges.
See comes from Freud. You know Jung, he was his student. If the energy discharges then you have
successfully found your own way. But if you do your own way and then the energy is stuck,
and you cannot live, and you're full of anger and self-attacking and all that,
then you have not successfully individuated. Yes so you can say oh aha yes I see. That's right
that makes sense. So theory does that. Up until step 8, 9 we were doing language. Now we are not.
Because up to step 10 we've been collecting, multiplying, putting down as much as we can,
not worrying about too muchness. Now in step 10 we start to get more narrow.
We are in logic. So we are talking about terms. A term is a logical unit. Now
step 10 asks me to make three terms. And what you have to know is that in step 11
we're going to do something, and then in step 12 we're going to choose our real
final committed three terms. So the choice in step 10 is still open. What I am doing is logic.
The only thing is I am doing what I call open logic. And open logic prepares for a logic.
Creates a logic. By the time I get to 12 I'm going to close the logic. I am doing something
that has been secret throughout the history of thought. I, knowing what logic looks like,
knowing the product that I'm looking for, I'm bringing the structure of logic to this place.
But I'm keeping it open. I'm saying give me three terms. Now in logic a term is what never changes.
From the beginning to logic to the end. That term stays together and that's logic. And the power of
logic lies in the not changing. But to build a logic you have to create the units, the terms.
How do you do that? It's a secret. Go look it up in the library, you'll find nothing about it.