ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the two main commonalities assessed as sustainers of the possibility for the experience of artistic creation, mystical experiences or psychotic episodes, that is, idiosyncrasies of an individual, which communicate the style of configuration and development of the sense of self, and the ways in which these, when acted out or expressed within verbal interactions, signalise modes or stages of individuation within relation, while being judged as healthily [or not] attuned to or alienated from the personhood of the others who co-exist with self within the specific culturally patterned character of human conduct where she is. Thus, it offers an in-depth contextualisation of the modulation of affects, sentiments, and moods, as a process that while endogenously and/or environmentally engendered, and impacted by dynamics of the collective consciousness and unconsciousness, produces structural and/or functional changes in the brain that are connected to individual differences in psychological traits. These changes are problematised in terms of subcortico-subcortical, cortico-subcortical, cortico-cortical, and subcortical-cortical neurological interactions, that by their instantiation determine how the individual immediately experiences, metabolises, and relates post-perceptually to the ways she senses, feels, performs, or inhibits behaviour, and relates to abstract thought and complex reasoning in relation to affective data.
