What I am suggesting is this: in animals there may be no such thing as schizophrenia because, except in humans, both hemispheres still maintain their groundedness in the pre-conceptual world. Because of the ‘virtuality’ that has necessarily followed the left hemisphere’s primary preoccupation with the world of symbols, as far as reality is concerned we have ended with ‘all our eggs in one basket’: the one on the right. As a result we are particularly vulnerable to anything that impairs the right hemisphere, since it is our mainstay in reality.
