Intentionality & Ambiguity & The Shadow

[droqen]

Ambiguous works leave room.
You fill that empty space up automatically.
The field of psychology contains many different explanations, theories, models, and so on, regarding the cause of various such fillings.
I enjoy doing tarot readings; there is a great deal of ambiguity there which I find productive; but I often forget to register the recognizable patterns of how I interpret ambiguity.
This is not about interpreting my interpretations or drawing psychological conclusions (my interpretation "means" this or "comes from" that).
Instead, the process I suggest is pattern recognition and the registration of such patterns into memory for future reference.

"When faced with ambiguity regarding someone's intentions, I tend to assume the best possible intentions."

This is not right, it is not wrong, it is not an indication of something. I will not give it a shorter handle like "i see the best in people," because the pithiness of such a phrase moves it into the vibes-based, emotional, interpretive, ambiguous realm.
The action I am undertaking here is meant to process ambiguity, not produce more.

[droqen]

I am being intentional with these statements as I write them, interrogating each word for ambiguity in intention: am I intending to describe an objective thing, or not?
If I am not, I change it to indicate the objective thing, or I cut it.

I love to write poetry!
I would not perform this function on poetry.
Poetry is also intentional, and it has a related process, but in the case of poetry I am often selecting for the reverse: having not enough ambiguity may be grounds for cutting.

[droqen]

"Objective statements bring me comfort."

This phrase came to mind. I interrogated it and discovered that it is not honest. I did not interrogate the words themselves, but what they mean to me; someone else could say these words honestly, or perhaps even I could, under other circumstances.

There is also no honesty in the phrase, "dolphin Alexander pillow brass." The opposite of honesty is not deceit, or untruthfulness. Honesty means describing something real, with an intentional lack of ambiguity.

[droqen]

Beauty is another thing that can be intentionally pursued. Beauty and honesty are not the same. Beauty cannot be described or defined honestly, only beautifully. This causes a lot of confusion and wastes a lot of people's time.