neuroses and psychoses – such as some obsessions, phobias, and schizophrenic visions – all seem to arise from a part of mind that we do not at all identify with; a part of mind that feels entirely alien, external to the ego. It is, thus, not so difficult to imagine that it is also a part of mind that we do not identify with, and do not seem to have control over, that projects the so-called ‘external world.’ And then, it is also not so difficult to conceive that the contents of this part of mind unfold according to stable patterns and regularities.
