When, under certain circumstances, it returns to consciousness, the representation is called an "imagining [Einbildung]", and, as we saw in our discussion of representational reproduction, when this reproduced imagining connects with a series of fused (temporal) representations, it may become a memory (SW VI: 121).
With so many artists trolling the waters where the currents of high and low, abstraction and representation, consciousness and escapism overlap, Ms. Berkenblit's work may need a little more pace and excitement to hold the attention.
"Desire", then, is the consciousness of a representation's rising struggle towards ever-brighter light, and of its corresponding "tension" as it works itself up and over obstacles (SW VI: 59).
It isn't the fact of consciousness, but our representations of consciousness, that give rise to most of the difficulties.
This view was profoundly misjudged, for Auchincloss interrogated the values, class consciousness and self-representations of the most powerful people in the world's most powerful nation.
Talk of consciousness and mental representations was banished from respectable scientific discussion.
This problem of the unity of opposites also arises in the case of the psyche, which is at once a unity and multiplicity: for it is one consciousness of innumerable representations (SW V: 307).
In Kant's words, self-consciousness "does not yet come about by my accompanying each representation with consciousness, but rather by my adding one representation to the other and being conscious of their synthesis.
Instead, various streams of new representations constantly come flowing into consciousness, and of these representations, many oppose each other.
That is, clarity occurs when a representation or representational series comes into full consciousness, where it hovers in the full light of attention.
