Psychosis. An extreme dissociation of the personality. Like neurosis, a psychotic condition is due to the activity of unconscious complexes and the phenomenon of splitting. In neurosis, the complexes are only relatively autonomous. In psychosis, they are completely disconnected from consciousness.
I found this after I Googled complexes. It’s not the usual kind of stuff we post (like research development and symptom management) but it seemed to help me know what’s going on in my head and come to terms with it. I love you all! Hope this helps you as much as I.
While Jung described his visions as a type of “psychosis” or “schizophrenia,” those terms meant something different a hundred years ago than they do today. Today, the terms describe a specific constellation of symptoms, one of which is the meaningful and significant interruption the disorder makes upon a person’s ordinary, daily life.
This part is interesting to me. It makes me wonder if the Jungian point of view has in anyway evolved it’s definition of psychosis and schizophrenia since Jung was around, and if that fits with this idea that it has to interrupt your daily life. Which also begs the question, does it have to interrupt in a meaningful and significant way on your life to be called these things?