Perception

Something goes wrong, something has gone wrong. And I find myself in a swirl. What brings that about? In the previous post I suggested that within the swirl there is a problem with boundaries. They seem not to be there except on the outside. If boundaries involve something spatial then their absence leads to an experience of no-space. Except on the outside, and from within the swirl that is somewhere else.
But why?
Or how?
Jules Henry in the Introduction to 'Pathways to Madness' writes "If we assume that the underlying structure of consciousness, the culturally determined framework of judgment and perception, is acquired through learning, it follows that some may learn it well, others poorly and some may not learn it at all............. under  the influence of a theory of unconscious destructive motivations, we have come to think that people who do the 'wrong thing' are motivated by unconscious hostility or death wishes." There are two issues here. When might some behaviour be categorised as the 'wrong thing' ?Secondly when is it appropriate to make reference to unconscious motivation as a causative factor in explaining the process? Actually there is another issue connected to the last point. When is the death instinct and allied notions called on to give specificity to unconscious motivation when considered as a or the causal factor in motivation.
The alternative that Jules Henry mentions is to think about the painful process as constituted by perceptual deficit. So for example the experience of a negative feeling state such as anxiety might be amplified by a cognition that itself is a function of a misperception. And this might give rise to a swirl. And the misperception might be illustrative of what I was exploring in the last post, namely the collapsing of certain boundaries that gives rise to a strange experience of no-space. No space to get bearings, no space to reflect, and this giving the swirl power.