It occurs to me, though, what a potentially powerful symbol the closet is. Do we not all have closets in our psyches? Or drawers, or even rooms we seldom visit?
I think there is a homology between organization of personal, physical space, and optimal psychic well-being. I am not talking Feng Shui, so much as recognizing that your space is an extension of you, and if what you see is muddled, that reflects some part of your emotional life. This is OK. This is not a judgement: it is an observation, and specifically one I am making with regard to myself.
I was thinking, too, of people who are prototypically a mess, like Albert Einstein. I am tempted to say that such people–and I think he is an example–are so successful intellectually because hidden unprocessed emotional places have driven them into abstraction. The effects of those undigested experiences can be plainly seen, though, in their spaces, and their personal appearance. Some of it is clearly calculated, but some of it is clearly unconscious.
It is so hard to see what is in front of you. I think I am improving, but I am not sure.