ABSTRACT
Psychosis is a fact of human life, one that humankind is never far from experiencing on a personal or a grand scale. In psychosis, the spread of either can be horrifying, but the work of omniscience is finally more dreadful. Omniscience tends to combine with omnipotence in hallucinatory–delusional scenarios. Omniscience is rooted in an invisible sense of boundlessness and draws on the intangible to befuddle embodied souls. Unintegration refers to the chaos of experiencing before it congeals into psychic formations that can be used defensively. It refers to a time or dimension of experiencing before the ability to split off and oppose aspects of the self to one another. D. W. Winnicott describes the possibility of therapy exploring what seems healthy in a patient, but glossing over difficulties that seem intractable, but are central to the most basic sense of self.
