The self-reflexive and self-aware capabilities of mind are limited and known to be limited, and for this reason it is clear that mind does not generate consciousness. It is more likely that consciousness generates mind but you cannot know this in so far as you know only through the mind. What is clear is only that mind leans on consciousness in that its limited self-awareness is consciousness-like. The mind has some sense of its own limits such as in the way it appears to itself in relation to and 'objective' space and time and in its distinction between inner and outer, between the sphere of ownness and that of otherness. The mind's boundaries are continually shifting but are meta-stable: in each evanescent formation a homologous structure arises and the abstract congruence of these structures remains stable and is ontologically loaded. The limitations of the mind which can be transcended in imagination are known because of the unlimitedness of consciousness, which is intuited rather than inferred. The mind is your primary instance of a structure that can in some sense capture consciousness, can force it to a virtual self-limitation. If the parameters bounding the mind can be altered then consciousness immediately floods the new structure and matters that were beyond the bounds of the prior version of mind or of the mental self, come readily into view. These 'matters' seen from the other side are exposed as contingencies, as mere contents which no longer play any definitive role in determining the structure of the subject. Hence they are seen by the prior structure as threats to its very existence. Every limited structure that seems to contain consciousness has this thoroughly ambivalent nature; what it wants is what frightens it.