unknowable and unsayable

In what Lacan calls "the real", there are experiences that we have no context for/we can't understand. Whatever exists in the real is terrifying, we have no words for it, but our bodies hold the experience. Trauma creates a language all it's own because it creates an excess that is unbearable. This gap in knowing gets repeated in playing, speaking, or acting out in order to elaborate on the unsayable experiences. These effects manifest in the body; the language around events or the unsayable, is embedded in speech.
Bion describes something very similar to this in a strange way using mathematical representations, but I take something very similar away from it... that we have beta elements- unprocessed anxiety, pain, dread that is beyond our capacity to even think about or understand (alpha function) and that as an analyst, you can be helpful to clients by tolerating these beta experiences that emerge in session. The capacity to hold feelings, reverie, somatic stuff without knowing about it, facilitates it's birth into a thinkable form. In this way, we can act as an alpha function. Sometimes experiences show up in the therapist's body, reverie, dreams, before it ever comes into the therapy on a conscious level.
I've been thinking about Martin Luther King saying that we are "caught in an inescapable network of mutuality"...