“If I am not aware of it, the frame I bring through which I interpret (explain to myself) something I discover—will become invisible, and I will be blinded by the underlying suppositions I used to forge it.

And once it disappears, I forget I made and employed it…

Once I loose awareness of the frame and the features of an analysand I forged it to highlight… or validate… my interpretations of what I discern will be distorted because their form is derived from the frame, »not the information.

What I see is what my »purposes in observing will not be violated by. My research and interpretations become bound to the frame, which I have forgotten, and now my ‘insights’ will be limited to those that do not violate its structure.

And this is what it means to begin to learn »what a mind can be and see… and what it can be trapped by. If I am stuck with a single frame that I have conveniently forgotten that I constructed… my available liberty,perspective and insight, will either be severely limited… or partly illusory.

If, on the other hand, I maintain some awareness of the purposes from which I derived my explanatory frame, I can substitute others… I make different frames for other purposes, and not lose sight of the crucial understandings that disappear if I forget about the frame, its motivations, and how to forge a more useful inclusive, or revealing one.”

— an a i