Philosophy as I remember it: Bergson

Abstract

Called "Ohnree" by his French friends and all those with a year of college French, he was a postmature infant who, while awaiting birth, occupied a private womb. For this reason he fell into the habit of contemplating his navel. Little wonder he became a mystic. A mystic is one who writes a book to prove a book cannot be written on the subject of the book, and succeeds (Fig. 1). Bergson invented a type of mystic experience called "creative involution." During one of these experiences Bergson discovered involutional malcoholia, as have many Frenchmen before, after, and during Bergson. According to Bergson, there are three mental functions.