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Is Psychosis a Collapse of the Ego?
Introductions
Psychosis describes a mental state often associated with having a loss of contact with the real world, which is caused by an abnormal state of the mind. Psychosis is often characterized by having hallucinations or even delusional beliefs that in many instances develop into thought disorders. The hallucinations can occur within any of the five senses. For instance, some victims claim that they are seeing what they believe to be real while in reality it does not exist. The principle objective is to investigate whether psychosis is a collapse of the ego or not.
Methodology
In order to answer the principal question, the study conducted a literature review of the published materials. Most of these materials were selected through searches conducted on the internet using terms that match the study. The search terms used in selecting the materials include ‘psychosis’ and ‘ego collapse’. The materials were selected from some of the online web catalogues that host scholarly articles including WEBCOHOST and PUBMED. From the search terms used, several articles were identified that were then chosen based on their relevance to the topic.
Summary of Results
Findings show that losing the ego involves several stages. The first stage is ego breakdown where the boundaries of the ego start cracking and then allowing unconscious content to leak through them. The next stage is the ego collapse where the boundaries are outdone by the unconscious content making the individual quite psychotic. Considering that psychosis is a detachment from reality and into the unconscious where the person can experience things that are not there in reality, a strong connection between ego breakdown and psychosis exists. Therefore, psychosis can represent a collapse of the ego.
Conclusion
Psychosis is defined as a mental state where the individual loses contact with the real world and experiences things that are out of their consciousness. On the other hand, ego collapse is the disintegration of the unconscious mind and reality, consequently allowing unconscious content to leak. Therefore, psychosis is an ego collapse since it happens when a person losses contact with reality.