CAPACITY

The camera is a migrant worker standing at the old end of Broadmead New End.
It follows the journey of a blue inflated balloon blown by a gentle breeze from outside Cex to over the road and then behind the tractor unit of an artic the trailer of which is loaded with breeze block.
He was sitting no more than ten yards away from me when he threw up the vomit falling down the lapels of his jacket the front of his shirt and on to the lap of his trousers.
I helped him changed his clothes and clean up and he gave me something to read by Winnicott.
‘He’s a top psychoanalyst,’ he said.
The piece was titled: MIND AND PSYCHE-SOMA;
- mind means something, he wrote, quite distinct from psyche;
- the psyche is concerned with soma and body functions;
- the mind catalogues events, stores up memories and classifies them;
- mind makes use of time as a measurement and can measure space;
- mind relates cause and effect.
- mind recognises the noises of preparation, is able to anticipate, seeing the whole picture using its link making capacity.