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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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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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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.