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Pre-Rational stages: Binary

In qualitative terms the conscious and unconscious can be represented by 1 and 0 respectively. Through consciousness unitary phenomena are actually posited in finite experience. Through the unconscious these are dynamically negated again leaving nothing in finite terms. However this represents a transfinite reality (which is pure potential for existence).

In the beginning both the conscious and unconscious are fully undifferentiated.The very basis of the qualitative binary state is that 1 = 0. However we have here a totally confused binary state. Indeed the essence of psychological transformation can be expressed as the subsequent movement towards a fully fused (i.e. fully differentiated) binary state.

First Transition

The first psychological stage involves a crucial transition with the emerging differentiation of conscious and unconscious. Finite (actual) reality begins to separate from transfinite (potential) reality. This process begins in the womb and is accentuated in the first months of infancy. Fleeting undefined events take place in experience arising and disappearing in the moment of creation.

However there is as yet little differentiation of cognitive and affective modes or objective or subjective directions in experience.