Abstract

In the Grail legend, the foolish Parsifal eventually asks the wounded king, “What ails thee?” This question, a combination of not knowing with a curiosity to know, heals the wasteland. “Knowing” forms our sense of consensual reality. “Not knowing” opens the imagination. We need both. This article hosts a discussion about what it takes to attain the wisdom of not knowing, how that type of wisdom is related to the capacity to bear paradox and symbol, and how that capacity might benefit us in psychotherapy and life.

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