Covenant groaned inwardly. Foamfollower had been his friend—and yet he had not even said goodbye to the Giant when they had parted. He felt an acute regret. He wanted to see Foamfollower again, wanted to apologize.
I don't get why Covenant is both heavily emotionally invested in certain characters like Foamfollower, and yet maintains his belief that 'the Land,' is an unconscious/unwilling fantasy creation of his own mind.
Wouldn't it be more natural to take the Land as real (given its vivid and consistent reality) and align emotional investment with rational belief, or contrawise, disengage emotionally from everything in the Land as merely an figment of his own creation imposed upon him by his own tortured mind.
Because Covenant's refusal to believe in the vivid reality of the Land (which his emotional response is telling him is true) is so mis-aligned with his emotions, it undercuts the validity of both the belief and his emotional response.
Like an irresistable force (the Land) working against an immovable object (Covenant's disbelief) they cancel each other out.
In the context in which Covenant is operating - this self-cancellation subverts the possibility of reader immersion into the narrative.
This mismatch between vividly experienced reality (the Land) and belief (all a crazy dream) operates like a deep plot hole.
