RE: Brexit as suicide: The psychology of self-harm
Thank you for a beautifully insightful perspective, @barge.
Also: R.D.Laing has always been one of my favourite psychologists.
I am on-board with your perspective that the UK may be, collectively, in in the throes of an ego-death. The question, as always with such transformations is: To what extent will the patient (the UK) scream, bluster, and grab destructively at objects in his immediate environment, before concluding that the only sensible way through this transition is to sit and breathe quietly, surrendering to the panic of extinction, yet confident in the knowledge that metamorphosis — a necessary rebirth — is imminent.
The UK strikes me as a 'patient' who will likely throw many more chairs through the windows of the ward before this transformation is done.
Utterly delighted to hear that @matrjoschka! "The Politics of Experience" helped me tremendously towards the end of a month-long psychosis (self diagnosed :) - effectively guided me out, in a way. That was the third time I read it, and it was also my third major psychosis (as I can gather from a retrospective look at my life)!
As for this psychotic 'patient', it does seem as if 'rock-bottom' has not yet been reached and there will certainly be more drama and suffering to come before he rejects the toxins he is being fed as 'medicine', regurgitates the poison, grieves his losses and begins to believe that 'alternative' methods and modes of healing are available and possible......and that he can forgive and be forgiven (possibly the toughest of all?)!
I can't resist copying the final page of R.D.Laing's 'The Bird Of Paradise' (from this post):
