The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*.
J.G. BallardTag: tv bomb nuclear psychosis
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
R.D. LaingTag: despair schizophrenia psychosis psychopathy
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
Joseph CampbellTag: metaphor attributed mysticism schizophrenia psychosis
Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
David BowieTag: future demons cocaine psychosis
The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.
Ernest BeckerTag: humor art creativity existentialism psychosis
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and its environment (outer world).
Sigmund FreudTag: definition neurosis psychosis 1924 differentiate
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world.
Sigmund FreudTag: conflict definition neurosis psychosis 1924
We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to infer that melancholia is the model of this group, and then we should put in a claim for the name of "narcissistic psychoneuroses" for these disorders.
Sigmund FreudTag: definition neurosis psychosis melancholia 1924
Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And—how many of us do know it?
Philip K. DickTag: future power government totalitarianism fascism nazism german psychosis 1962
He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac escaped from a secure mental hospital.
Etienne de L'AmourTag: schizophrenia psychosis
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