In the early 1970's, Anthony Wilden, whose academic reputation had been made as the most adroit expositor in English of the way psychoanalysis was being practiced in France, was working on what would become a two-volume study of the construction of images and the causes of war. He was drawn again into the operations of the pathological psyche, and in a striking section he set out to describe a healthy psyche against which to place the deformations in which he was interested. One, we have healing associated with these three cut-ups. Two, we have wholeness associated with them. Through them, we have healing and wholeness associated.
W e move now to ping pong.
James Carse at NYU wrote a fine book called Finite and Infinite Games, of which I'd like to make use. Imagine two pairs of ping-pong players. The four players are quite good and they all claim that they love to play. This genius of the game makes similar points against an adversary trying to do the selfsame thing, and in, say, eleven minutes the game is over. The player who first scored has won it.