Complex thinking is that internal characteristic that every human being has when differentiating the real from the imaginary. There are people who fail to differentiate one from the other. These people are known as mentally ill (crazy) since they live in an imaginary world and of fantasies where they do not care about society, morality etc. for other people they see it from a different angle and they call it creativity, fantasy or experiences that have been stored in the mind and that for some reason causes this information to be disturbed and fall between the thin line that is reality and the imaginary.
Madness and creativity
From these premises, under which patterns we decide where the "madness" begins and differs from "normality". How different subjectivities can coexist with different and common spaces. It is possible that these considerations include madness and creativity.
Both concepts are creations of communication processes, because through them we transmit information that creates life situations and gives them meaning. It is therefore our responsibility to recreate some concepts or others; thus, we develop classifications on diseases, diagnoses, pathologies, etc.; On the other hand, we consider expressions of personal imbalance as manifestations of a process of personal change that try to give a new meaning to the person's life.
As the author mentions, it is very difficult to delimit the line that exists between the real and the imaginary, since all of us have a degree of insanity, some in a lower percentage than others, because how many times have we not had fantasies, dreams that over time we try to make it happen and that when we do not comply we feel frustrated and this often leads us to lose ourselves between the real and the unreal of our life and stay in a world that we create in our imagination and this leads us to people to see us as the media have spread and society has named them mentally ill, crazy, insane, etc.
Fantasy and experience
The psychologist explains that It is not possible to demonstrate the existence of unconscious fantasy to the person immersed in it. It can only be recognized as such an unconscious fantasy after it has been removed. This approach is bristling with difficulties, but also any other that is done. And the situation does not improve due to the fact that the concept of unconscious fantasy is almost unexplored from the phenomenological and existential perspective. However, no general explanation of human relationships can be overlooked.
Unconscious phantasies exert a continuous influence throughout the life of both the normal and the neurotic person; the difference lies in the specific character of the dominant fantasies, in the desire or anguish associated with them, and in the interaction with each other and with external reality.
Fantasies are undoubtedly what people create in their own mind that they know will never be able to come true and try to recreate them in their unreal world. And for some, so much is their thinking about that imaginary world that those fantasies cling and live on a real plane, that without a doubt that when someone who does not have such fantasies sees it, they see it as if they were crazy.
We can mention the man who thinks he is a gallant who walks with many women but in reality nobody strips him and he creates a fantasy or illusion that he is very handsome and that all the women who approach him is because he likes them. People living in this situation reach the point of no longer distinguishing the real from the unreal.
We must differentiate between fantasy and dreams (we set ourselves as goals) one of the experiences that mark our life is dreams since through these we set ourselves goals and many of them serve to set us where we want to go and what we are going to do in life, while fantasy is a means that serves as an escape from the real world, the goals here play an unattainable role and that is why people prefer to stay in this imaginary world in which they are the protagonists and there is no other superior or better than them.
Sources of the imaginary
In order for human thought to appear, it is necessary that this weight of reality, or rather of presence, give way to something very different. Henceforth, it is no longer a perceptual horizon, but the passage to another kind of world, to an imaginary world.
Since then, the continuum of presence will give way to a kind of dialectical opposition and the problem of reality will be seen to appear. Before that, the real was imposed as such, it was present, without raising any other question than its value: for this reason the image of the mirror was uninteresting.
Henceforth, with regard to any phenomenon, the problem of its reality may arise: from a phenomenological vision one will pass to an ontological plane. The real will be questioned, because the mere presence will no longer impose on the phenomenon the quality of real. Reality will no longer simply be lived as such, it will be questioned before conscience.
From that moment on, three types of entities will appear. The type of primitive being to which reality does not pose any immediate problem, but weighs on its experience. Immediately, the one to whom unreality does not pose an immediate problem, since it is involved in representative intention. Finally a mixed type that participates at the same time of the perceived and its heavy presence, and of the imaginary.
Referring to what the author says, we can find various types of fantasies, one of which is linked to lived experiences such as: you have a friend or family member who lives far away and you think about him, what he is doing At that moment the imagination enters because we begin to deduce what he is doing, or what they would do if they were together. This does not mean that the person is crazy or lives in an unreal world since his fantasies in parts are real because the person with whom he is fantasizing if he exists, knows and have lived together.
conclusion
To speak of complex thinking is to know how to distinguish the real from the imaginary, and to be aware of what world we are living in, we must do a self-analysis to see what is most prevalent in us if fantasy or reality. And inadvertently what happened to the famous Don Quixote de la Mancha who went so deep into his knight books that he clung to those stories and totally created an imaginary world, and as we will all remember had his loyal squire Sancho Panza. Here comes the question: Who was crazier if Don Quixote de la Mancha believed himself to be a noble knight and won battles or his squire who followed him on his travels and shared his victories?
It is for this and many other things that we must be aware of our actions and be aware of the world in which we live.
Bibliography
Ronald D. Laing, The Self and the Others, Economic Culture Fund, 1974, pp. 15, 17.78.
Chateau, Jean, The Sources of the Imaginary, Economic Culture Fund, 1976, p. 191.
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