One chapter in and I’ve already learned something new in

’s serialized memoir Men, Myself & I.

I wasn’t familiar with the term unthought known, but as soon as I read the definition it made perfect sense, and it’s something I’ve experienced quite a lot, and also in the context of relationships, although most often for different reasons.

I talk about this a lot in my own chapter 9 called I Let Confusion In, and it’s a theme that runs through my book—knowing at some level, but not knowing myself well enough to allow myself to recognize what’s known… and eventually coming to know myself much better.

“An unthought known” also strikes me as yet another way to talk about intuition, although with the additional specificity that it’s something repressed.

Nicely done Minda!

“An unthought known is, as psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas describes it, something we know with certainty but cannot allow ourselves to think.”
Chapter 1: Unthought Known
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