The phrase "totally comprehend" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to emphasize that you understand something completely. For example, you could say, "I totally comprehend what you are trying to tell me."
No one, not even the psychopharmacologists who dispense them after considering the odds, totally comprehends why they work when they work or why they don't when they don't.
There I was in 1984, a kid who couldn't walk out of Toys Us Us with a toy, but totally comprehended the notion of an Intranet, routers, servers and modems.
The first story concerns Julia as an imaginative little fake detective and not totally comprehending that her parents had a miscarriage.
I was reminded, too, of Jessy Park, and how she was fascinated by the fact that onions could make one weep but was totally unable to comprehend that one could also weep for joy).
He conceived that the postwar world was too complex in its political and economic operations for any one playwright to comprehend it totally.
As Gottlieb points out, much of the Western philosophy that still matters to us is the product of just two such eras: Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. and Western Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries A.D. It is hard for us to comprehend how totally Western consciousness was transformed during the second of these two periods, precisely because we live in its aftermath.
Like JCO, who is menaced by "the threat of totally losing control", who wants to "comprehend" her experience of grief in a "coherent way", "categorise" it, O'Rourke tries to "ransack the moment for understanding", "to make sense" of it: "I gave up trying to sleep.
That's what's so interesting about writing about the period: to comprehend it, you have to work your way into a totally different worldview".
The year 1834 marks a climax in Balzac's career, for by then he had become totally conscious of his great plan to group his individual novels so that they would comprehend the whole of contemporary society in a diverse but unified series of books.
