ABSTRACT
One of the psychological virtues of Trinitarian thinking is that it safeguards the division–unity structure of generativity. There is, above all, the drive to come to grips with psychic reality in spite of all obstacles, perhaps, at times, a destructive need for Truth. Perhaps, too, there is a love as well as a mistrust of the imaginal, and an abiding love for psychic reality as such. The failure to achieve enough good feeling to support healthy mental functioning is as real a danger as the exploitation of good feeling in collective brainwashing maneuvers. There is a mixture of cynicism and naivete in madness that hideously mocks the innocence and sophistication of health. In madness, joy dulls crucial aspects of reality. It goes round in circles and ends in bitterness and blindness. Popular caricatures are right in portraying the smile of madness as an odd mixture of innocence and cynicism, a kind of malicious yet blank triumphant glee.
