Our metapsychology is wholly mythic and imaginative. It insists on such unsystematic unknowables as depth, soul, and death. The perspective conforming with this background is shackled in its ambition.
What kind of theory could we construct, when we can’t describe, let alone define, the basic terms in our vocabulary? We have to enter the battle without
directions from headquarters, as if there were no headquarters and no battle plan. Ever on watch for the undersense, we must grapple with each dream bare-handed, daring our way through from image to image solely by means of our imaginative craft and consistent viewpoint, without theoretical goals saying how it should all come out and when the engagement is over.
Having no theory, we can only stick to the dream.
— The Dream and the Underworld, Praxis