**Title** 202011011505 The mind that created the problem cannot come out with a solution. **Source** Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton **Date** 1 Nov 2020 **Tags** #language **How can we know what will fulfill our desire when that desire first arise? The fulfillment of a desire is not on the same level of the creation of the desire?** - Reminded me of the idea of going deeper into the circle/level to uncover core value, of what is meaningful to us. The mind that created the problem cannot come out with a solution. **Reference** These people are unable to intelligibly resolve this potentially productive ambiguity. They take wishing to be a mental event that occurs now, then wonder how it is possible to know now what will fulfill it. The fulfillment of the wish has not yet come so how can the present wish determine this non-existent thing that will fulfill it? Imagining this, they feel tense and strive to fulfill this ‘gap’ between the two ‘items’: one’s wish that is in one’s mind now and some extra-mental event that is the fulfillment of the wish. They are unable to understand that the fulfillment of a process is not on the same level as the process; we require metaphorical understanding to conceptualize a completed process (PI, para. 437–50). - page 24-25 [[202009071534 Notes Reading Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy. From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton]] Chapter 2. Paradoxes of meaning. p24 Wittgenstein and Psychotherapy From Paradox to wonder. John M. Heaton **Cross-links**