will I be able to read it? or intimidations of the next step
by robert aziz
According to psychoanalytical theory, a parapraxis or Freudian slip, as it is more commonly termed, denotes an error in speech or action, which although seemingly innocent betrays an unconscious anxiety or problem. Given my own clinical observations in this regard, I have not treated as insignificant the inadvertent conversion by certain individuals with whom I have spoken of the title of my journal entry intimations of the next step to intimidations of the next step. (I should say that I am being as careful as I possibly can at this moment in the spelling of these two words.)
Not unrelated to this, but clearly far more directly to the point, would be the apprehension-laden question about The Syndetic Paradigm with which I am most frequently presented. That question being: Will I be able to read it?
Now as much as I understand that the damage of any reflective pause on my part in answering that question will be measured by the second, I am not inclined simply to respond, on the other hand, with an unreflective ‘of course you can.’ So it is at this point that it has proven to be of benefit to introduce the experiences of some of those who read my first book C.G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity (1990).
Readers have typically characterized my first book as a well-written work with a very concentrated and thus challenging style. It has never been characterized as something people would breeze through, professionals included. The same is true of The Syndetic Paradigm. Its ideas and theories are thoroughly distilled and carefully presented. Both works, there should be no doubt, demanded a great deal of me so one would only imagine that a great deal would be demanded of their readership in turn.