Unthought

But without his knowing, they interfere with his research and at the very least call on him to put the results in perspective. This is what we call the “unthoughts” of scientific work.

There is no tapping into some stream of desire yet to be revealed. Desire through cinemasochism resonates again with traditional masochism in the vertigo of being faced with an unthought that cannot be thought and a desire that cannot know itself […]

Modern thought renounces the pure transparency of the Cartesian cogito in the recognition that the cogito is intrinsically tied to an unthought which escapes the reflection of the cogito even as it makes this reflection possible.

Given the power of the word, our lack of control over the word once it is spoken, and our even greater lack once it is published, I have often wondered: What may have been the consequences of my many published unthoughts?

For Bion it is not thinking which produces thoughts but unthought thoughts which require an apparatus for thinking them.