"It seems that whatever
mental apparatus allows us to differentiate dozens of people also allows us to differentiate thousands of people."
During my formative years, in my early teens, pure chance, acting via a very perceptive second-hand book seller, delivered me a book that had a profound impact on my
mental apparatus. It has lasted me a lifetime and over the years I have found myself dipping into it for a refresher whenever the need arises.
Scholars of philosophy explore the role of topology in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis both generally and in specific contexts in which this epistemological reference provides insight into the nature of
mental apparatus, language, and knowledge.
Bion believed the working through of painful emotional experiences should be deemed a core task for a healthy functioning of the
mental apparatus. He even advocated that the practice of psychoanalysis should aim at enhancing the individual's capacity to experience, tolerate and understand mental pain:
This does prompt the question of whether he's unlucky or whether there is some flaw in that superbly functioning
mental apparatus of his when it has to connect with the real world?
The death instinct is the aspect of the
mental apparatus that do not protect life or preserve pleasure.
In this way, our
mental apparatus is constantly undergoing transformation through its engagement with other objects in the world.
The relation between the failure to build a
mental apparatus and the psychotic part of personality will be explained in depth in the following pages.
Therefore, bias, preconception, and preconditioning are built into his
mental apparatus, as they are into every human's
mental apparatus.
He explores Kant and Hume and Rawls in some detail and uses their insights to characterize different aspects of the human
mental apparatus that can become involved in moral judgments.
firstly, and more broadly a useful reminder that early Christian exegetes' arguments often focused as much on the
mental apparatus used to approach texts as they did on the texts themselves.