Mind and Form

In On the Soul, III, 8, Aristotle characterizes Mind as "the form of forms", likening it to the hand as "the tool of tools".  So, in this clear reflection on Mind, the Form of Mind is revealed to be the Form of Forms.  But, then, contrary to what he claims in Metaphysics XII, 9, in the Self-Contemplation of Mind, Subject and Object are not identical. For, the Object is the Form of Forms, and the Subject is the Form of the Form-of-Forms.  The distinction is not trivially linguistic; rather, it is typical of a suppression that inheres in most concepts of Reflection--presenting them as 'identical' abstracts from not only all the particular Forms that originate from Mind, but the Matter of each as well.  Similarly, presenting the hand as the 'tool of tools' abstracts from the Matter on which each tool works.  Thus, the thesis that is at the heart of his system--that thought-thinking-itself is Immaterial, is the product of analysis, and not existentially true.