Poetry here is a means of access to, and experimentation with, pre- and extra- individual association, 'a matter of conjoining the materiality of language with the
transitiveness of the psyche'.
For example, he produces in his introduction a structure in which 'Nonrationalism and Work' is opposed to 'Rationalism and Labour', and under these general headings are further opposed, inter alia, 'Homo faber' and 'Homo economicus', the realm of freedom and the realm of maximizing or the realm of necessity, idealism and materialism, moralism and pragmatism, form and reform, finality and conditionality, totality and variability, withdrawal and concession, intransitiveness and
transitiveness, 'a priori' and 'a posteriori', and so on (p.