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Latent psychosis (n.) outnumbers ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠manifest cases by perhaps ten to one, Jung reckoned; such patients often pass as hysterics or obsessionals and systematically avoid asylums, seeking the psychologist instead.

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A Latent psychosis (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only the possibility of breaking down someday, which depends not on strange unconscious contents, found also in artists and normal dreamers, but on whether one can bear panic or a psyche at war with itself.

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The Latent psychosis (n.) stands ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠on treacherous ground, knowing his foundations may give way; dreams of heaving earth, bulging walls and the world's end signal his menacing isolation and call for immediate precautions.

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Psychosis (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be beautiful, a schizophrenic girl told Jung, hating him for barring her from hers, a reminder that madness can hold ecstasies and adventures that tempt patients back.

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Psychosis (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠psychologically speaking, a state in which formerly unconscious elements take the place of reality, which happens when people lose their hold on life's concrete values.

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Schizophrenia (n.) deserves ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a square deal for its psychic side, Jung demanded, since biology, anatomy and physiology had had all the attention and still knew little of heredity or the primary symptom.

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Schizophrenia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Bleuler's "split mind", which for Jung has a psychology with causes and aims like normal life, except that the ego is only one of several experiencing subjects, the person split into a plurality of autonomous complexes.

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The Toxin hypothesis (n.) Jung ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠returned to late in life: emotion exceeding the capacity of brain-cells might cause a local organic disintegration, a view encouraged by experience with mescalin.

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The Toxin hypothesis (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Jung's tentative 1906 guess that the affect in dementia praecox might trigger metabolic poisons injuring the brain, so the last complex "coagulates" and further development halts; a primary physical change could not be excluded.

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Affectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the essential basis of personality, Jung held; thought and action are, as it were, only its symptoms.

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Alcoholic jealousy (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an unconscious compensation: the drinker's love for his wife has not vanished but sunk below the threshold, and can return only as jealousy.

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Belle indifférence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the smiling calm with which hysterics describe what should move them deeply; the autonomous complex lets itself be reproduced only when it wishes, so the mask breaks suddenly in a storm of affect.

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A Complex (n.) stands ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in relative independence from the ego, a vassal that will not give unqualified allegiance; its associations come only with struggle, slip away, and fall into amnesia, while indifferent ones come smoothly.

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A Dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the hallucination of normal life, nothing but a hallucinatory representation of repressed complexes.

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Insanity (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠literally and not as metaphor, a dream that has become real and replaced waking consciousness; the dreamer is normally insane, and the phenomenology of dream and schizophrenia is almost identical.