Sabina SpielreinThinkers

Psychosis (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠look like a deep-rooted folk superstition: patients set up, in place of reality, archaic ideas that once had a real function.

A Symbol (n.) arises ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from a complex's striving to dissolve into the common totality of thought — robbed of its personal quality; that dissolution is the mainspring of all art.