Postscript

	After some considerable rethinking of the nature of the relationship between psychosis and neurosis with respect to their being locked in or out of the suspension, etc., I have come to the conclusion that this whole problematic region needs to be rethought. My original conclusions can be seen as provisional in this regard. 
	Already I have changed my opinion about the primacy of the horizontal axis and now consider the vertical axis as primary although, correctly, neither axis can function without the other. The vertical axis establishes a sense of referential location in the psyche. In my opinion a disturbance of this axis is more likely to be reflected in a psychosis where possibility and actuality are more likely to be confused, where imaginary images and sensory images are more likely to be confused, where feelings and thoughts are more likely to be confused, etc., basically through a defective appreciation of psychic location.
	On this subject of psychic location a double hermeneutic circle would also imply that our gestalt orientation, perspectives on our intentionally being, would also take a duplicated format. In my opinion the first vertical axis establishes a sense of field whilst the second horizontal axis establishes a sense of intentional objectivity. In this light we can have a field orientation in one of the major aspects and a focal interest in intentional objectivity in some other location or within the same location, e.g., a transcendental field interested in cognitive intentionality, etc. 
	Then, to complicate the picture even further we could invoke three axes through a suspension of the first two and their creation of a sense of self or ego through a transcendence of the relationship between the intentional object and the intentional field. Indeed with three polarities function properly we get a normal state of affairs without neurotic and psychotic disruptions.
	Put simply to be locked into the first vertical dimension is to be locked into a psychotic state of some description or other. To be locked into the second horizontal dimension is to be locked into a neurotic state of some description or other. (Then to be locked into the third dimension (of the moment of transcendental-suspension-ego) would, in my opinion realize a rather selfish preoccupation with egotistical processes and predilections). However to be locked into none of these orientations is to realize a normal state of consciousness that is authentically oriented, to some degree or other, in the direct experience of the actual world in the society of others. However for the next few sections of this paper let me disregard this third axis and concentrate of the nature of the relationship between these two polarities especially with respect to disturbances in the same.
	Now, to be `locked into' the vertical axis would mean, in my opinion, that one is automatically `locked out' of the second. Assuming a certain inversed symmetry between psychosis and neurosis let me make the further assumption assume that when we are locked into the second axial dimension we are effectively locked out of the first. Of course we must qualify this type of metaphorical ascription by noting the more obviously dialectical nature of this type of distinction. These expressions are essentially dealing with orientations and certainly not definitive states. By rights there can be no second dimension without a first, etc., (and that this same orientational treatment applies to our third through its contra-identification with the first and second). In this light we can assume that the more a psychotic locking into the first axis takes place the less likely one can be neurotically locked into the second axis, and vice versa. Therefore we can re-define our three (four) apparent psychic states as:

Psychotic	  Locked into 1st., Locked out of 2nd. (& 3rd.)
Neurotic	  Locked out of 1st., (& 3rd.) Locked into 2nd.
(Narcissistic  Locked out of 1st., 2nd., Locked into 3rd.)
Normalcy	  Neither locked in/out of 1st., 2nd.(, & 3rd).

	Hence both a psychosis or a neurosis could be defined as either locked in to x, or, as locked out of y. or vice versa (defining x and y in the above terms of reference).
	Now what is meant by these expressions locked into/ locked out of? Locked into means locked into the suspension, etc., by virtue of the fact that we can not exit from that level of psychic organization because we are orientationally locked into either the moment of reduction or the moment of reconstitution, or their collective, contra-identificational transcendence in the form of their suspension, or, suspension of that suspension. Locked out being defined through a state of imbalance in one aspect causing a lack of relative access to some other aspect or aspects of the psyche. An orientation is `healthy' as long as it can be suspended. 
	Therefore, a psychosis is essentially being locked into the first axis and simultaneously being locked out of the second. Conversely, being locked into the second axis means simultaneously being locked out of the first, realizing a less disruptive state of neurosis. A balance of these two dimensions realizing their suspension, namely their `suspension' and `suspension of the suspension' along with insight that follows from the former and the ability to respond appropriately from the latter. (Invoking a third dimension we can, as already noted, invoke a suspension of the balance entertained between the primary suspension and the secondary suspension of that suspension).
	Hence, in conclusion, we can state that the successful suspension of suspensions of suspensions, etc., effectively establishes higher states of healthy psychological functioning. That the inability to perform suspensional states of balance is reflected in disturbed behavioral responses, or non-responses, in accordance with the locus of that disturbance in psychic structural-function.

Total Text of “Insight” edited 6.11.99.

Editor’s comments: Work on the topological differentiation of psychoses and neuroses has been re-visited in the recent papers Presuppositions of a Contemporary Psychology – Introduction and Text. A lot more work needs to be done, N.