The following section from Foucault is very interesting, because it recognises what I have also discovered, which is that you need a kind of “doubling” (in my terms) or in this case, “a mind folded back” in order to have any kind of profundity in thinking.
[Y]ou find this idea of a mind in profundity; of a mind folded back in the intimacy of itself which is touched by a sort of unconsciousness, and which can develop its potentialities by the deepening of the self. And that is why the grammar of Port Royal, to which you refer, is, I think, much more Augustinian than Cartesian.
[Y]ou find this idea of a mind in profundity; of a mind folded back in the intimacy of itself which is touched by a sort of unconsciousness, and which can develop its potentialities by the deepening of the self. And that is why the grammar of Port Royal, to which you refer, is, I think, much more Augustinian than Cartesian.
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