A Worldview (n.) is a private segment of world each of us builds with air-tight compartments, until it seems we have grasped the whole — but the finite never grasps the infinite.
A Worldview (n.) can be only provisional once we admit a second psychic system coexisting with consciousness: a dual focus in the knowing subject must alter the world it knows.
A Worldview (n.) is an attitude that has been formulated into concepts — not just a view of the world but the way one views it.
A Worldview (n.) is a picture that paints us back: the man whose sun circles the earth is a different man from the one whose earth circles the sun.
A Worldview (n.) is a hypothesis, not an article of faith: we shall all be as good as dead one day, but we can postpone it by never letting our picture of the world grow rigid.
A Worldview (n.) errs fatally when it claims objective truth — which leads to the insufferable conclusion that the same God must help Germans, French, English, Turks and heathen, everybody against everybody else.
A Worldview (n.) draws the border of the unconscious: many things are unconscious only because our picture of the world allows them no room.
A Worldview (n.) is a view of the world, which patients like Schreber struggle to build in order to assimilate strange psychic events; everyone has one, and those unaware of theirs hold an archaic, undeveloped one.
A Worldview (n.) is almost always held; those proud to have none lack an indispensable function, and in their unconscious an archaic view of life takes its place, as any missing conscious function survives there in embryonic form.