- Hannah Arendt describes thinking as “a dialogue between me and myself”. - Thinking allows us to communicate with the not-fixed self. - Klein connects this to the Internal Family Systems therapy modality, but also to totalitarianism – when we lose our ability to think and dialogue with the self, we can only regurgitate what we hear. - [[2026-07-26]] this separation of the direct self and not-self is [[{1.3} partitioning, performing, and projecting|partitioning]].