Language-based image-making, image-based language

Language-based image-making, image-based language:  We can  compare psychoanalytic work to the connect-the-dots games in children's books, where, if you connect the dots, you construct a picture. This is what the human mind does when it constructs a constellation out of the billions of stars in a black sky. A particular star, dot, word, resonates with other starts, dots, words -- we create patterns. Sometimes other people recognize the patterns with us, sometimes they don't. Psychoanalysts, and other intuitives, learn to recognize the patterns people see, when no one else seems to recognize those patterns....