image of thought

When enthralled by the image of thought, we believe that problems are given ready-made and that they disappear when confronted with the response or the solution. We believe that the activity of thinking begins only with the search for solutions. “According to this infantile prejudice, the master sets a problem, our task is to solve it, and the result is accredited true or false by a powerful authority. It is also a social prejudice with the visible interest of maintaining us in an infantile state, which calls upon us to solve problems that come from elsewhere, consoling or distracting us by telling us that we have won simply by being able to respond.” ⁷