The cat mew...and Factor X (Oedipus)

It is at times like this that I need Kit. You see, I don't understand the cat-mew...the CTMW, Langan's Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe and I'd like to.

For one, I love the language of it:

An act is a temporal process, and self-inclusion is a spatial relation.  The act of self-inclusion is thus "where time becomes space"; for the set of all sets, there can be no more fundamental process.  No matter what else happens in the evolving universe, it must be temporally embedded in this dualistic self-inclusion operation.  

For two, the cat mew could be entirely mad! And a total waste of time, it pains me that I don't recognise enough of the concepts to judge! 

Yet it is also possible that Kit would not be the perfect person for this. 

And asking myself why he may not be, reveals another aspect of factor X.

In Jungian theory, someone who defaults to an extroverted mode of Thinking accepts definitions because they are externally validated. Whilst someone in an introverted Thinking mode, asks themselves, does this construction of reality really accord with my perceptions, regardless of received opinion. Obviously, we all can use both modes - but during those sessions where Kit and I would talk, one of us was at war (I think) with introverted Thinking. 

And I'm going to explain why I think this. Between his words as he talked about therapy I heard enough to understand why a part of him had sided with his father against himself, and this part of factor X meant that my introverted thinking mode was classified as contrariness. 

Based on what Kit had said I'm guessing that Kit had learnt to avoid introverted Thinking. The result was that whenever I used metaphor, and whenever I said ' but it doesn't seem that way to me because x,y,z'. He interpreted this as an attempt to invalidate him, whilst I saw it as making the exploration personal. That people can and should speak from, and trust their own experiences, especially for the purpose of playing with ideas, is fundamental to respecting autonomy.

Introverted thinking tends towards intuition. Introverted intuition prioritises the patterns and possibilities to be found in incoming information. Whilst extrovert thinking becomes sensing, a prioritisation of facts and concrete information. 

OK, recap,  all the times he said  'this has been so much fun', all the 'coffee fuelled discussion' feelings' talking with me brought back for him, were then discounted (by him).  His sensing eclipsed intuition, as intuition was a dangerous mode when he was a child. This process, makes his statement that he didn't intuit my feelings for him, credible. It explains why he would have been drawn to becoming a therapist, as a need to encounter the Child-in the client, to help the Child become less emotional, more rational. A journey he himself had to make?

This does indeed describe something I felt from him, that I call factor X. that explains why therapy almost killed me.