Perhaps the first principle of wisdom is to exempt nothing from our doubt and questioning—especially when we are certain that our own belief is correct and justified. Yet a higher level of knowledge may be that, in addition to questioning ourselves, we can also see the light within what opposes our beliefs and even agree with it.

In this way we may move beyond black-and-white thinking, see with greater clarity the true shades of the ideas that have shaped our world, and while struggling against darkness simultaneously preserve what is luminous in ideas, human beings and the world. This is my practical and lived definition of what “love” means.

To think psychoanalytically—“psychoanalytic thinking”—is a form of phenomenological and dialectical movement of the mind between the luminous and dark sides of one's own thoughts, then the capacity to see the luminous side of an opposing idea, and then to stand at a greater height and watch a new idea emerge from this dialectical contradiction. Such a way of living and thinking can place us simultaneously on the path of “wisdom” and “love” in life.

Aydin Areta

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