Potentiality

Aristotle associates potentiality with matter. Here I am not endorsing Aristotle’s four causes, nor his hylomorphism, but simply thinking about the …

Potentiality

——- So it is: the actuality of potentiality.

I might even go so far — or father — to say that the issue with subjectivity is that it always the potential of potential, such that it’s actuality is never gained.

Hence: orientation is the actual basic issue for mental health.

For health must be actualized as the potential itself. To always hold or move into the potentiality of what is already potential is nothing less than an existential crisis waiting to either be denied (bad faith) or unfolded (political reality).

What matters is what is actually occurring. The lived experience of potentiality of what is occurring is anxiety, whether for good or bad.