| dc.description.abstract | My thesis constitutes a body of work positioned between post-qualitative inquiry and new materialist
approaches to research-creation (Manning 2016). Sparked by a marker dream, my research grapples
with the tacit dimension of knowledge or the factual position from which "we can know more than
we can tell" (Polanyi 2009, 4). In the context of human conscious/unconscious consciousness, tacit
knowledge is qualified as unspecifiable knowledge, which is differentiated from the explicit and
implicit dimensions of knowing. My thesis functions as a linguistic bridge to make meaning of tacit
knowledge by utilising selected psychoanalytical and new-materialist concepts to trouble my marker
dream’s tacit dimension. In my writing, symbolising and dreaming thereof, I expand the conceptions
of Polanyi’s (2009) tacit dimension of knowledge, Bion’s (1962) contact-barrier, and Jung’s (2019)
individuation process, illustrating how these terms relate to each other and my chosen research topic.
As research knowledge, my writing amplifies the felt tensions, symbols, and relationships created
between dreams and texts, troubling their affective impact on the psyche. Here, I purpose my marker
dream as a vehicle of tacit-knowing orientated toward the encounter with its contact-barrier that
differentiates my marker dream’s explicit, implicit and other dimensions from its tacit dimension of
knowledge. This process explores how writing and reading establish relational bridges between pre conceptual felt sense (Gendlin 1997), language symbols and theoretical conceptions. These affective
bridging states are posited as relational encounters tracing instances of tacit-knowing. By writing into
these relationships, I performatively create the waking dream of my thesis. My research question
inquires: "How is the tacit dimension of knowledge encountered through dreaming and writing?" | en |
