Psychic reality and external reality: attached, or detached?

Reality. Does it start in one's head, or in the world? Or, as Psychologist Robert Godwin puts it in today's post at One Cosmos,

the world is simply enlisted as the psychic furniture for his malevolent dreams.

Let's shift gears for a moment to the political sphere. In my adult life I have never seen so much racial, sexual, and class paranoia coming from the left. Really, as recently as the 1990s I thought we were past all this, but somehow it's gotten worse than ever. In my view this is because, as with the patient above, psychic reality is detached from external reality.

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