Consciousness is in direct connection with the entities and forces that affect it but it can only understand them according to its own 'language' which means as filtered through a certain categorical metaphysics which it cannot but produce out of its own nature. It can know enough to sense the uncanny nature of these untranslatable forces and to face up to the abundant evidence of its own secondary nature. At tthis limit of language it knows a strange pregnancy, as if it would give birth to something entirely new, but can find no way to bring it about.