RE: WILD WRITE. About polarities & further associations.
Of course I strive for balance as so many of us do and that place in the middle seems most desirable in keeping our sanity, but I have always been accused of elongating my drawings, being hyperbolic in my writings and probably taking myself and others too seriously.
Your post makes me think about jumping on a trampoline and how it becomes more exciting the greater the leaps--really high and hitting down hard and how both together increase that space in between.
Even as a child, I liked to use my crayons in a careful way, covering all of the white with specific, solid colors (no scribbling outside of the lines), but then I liked to take my black crayon and outline every edge because it seemed to make the entire picture pop--so much more brilliant.
And as a writer, or photographer, I might see and/or hear much, but I don't take a picture of all, only those images that stick out starkly because they're what catch my eye eve though I know the in between spaces bolster these.
I do agree we are living like kings and queens, entirely rich in our time to think and think and think and that thinking grows new psychological flora and fauna, but who is to say "psychosis," is a weed and not someone discovering the colors at an ever expanding edge?
As artists the polarities are needed for showing a certain message. Without the outer edges the message would be weak. So writing in extremes is a teacher.
I like the trampoline analogy.
Once I was told that I always had such high-flying ideas and how it could only be that I always throw myself so into certain topics and one could not understand why I could dedicate myself to such a thing at all. I should be glad that nothing worse had happened to me and that I was still alive. HaHa, that looks familiar, doesn't it? However, the message is correct, but the sound was discordant. The one who gave me this lesson and with whom I was at odds had a lack of attention to complain about and was annoyed that I appeared so fond of myself.
She was right in a way, because the part that always revolves around myself can become unhealthy for me if I'm not careful. So the others take care of me and correct if I am too far away from the path.
The essence of her judgement pointed me in the right direction, but her anger at what I allowed myself indicated that she did not allow herself to take what I took.
The outer end of the psychotic flora is an excellent place to see, but bad for lingering.
The more I look into the abyss, the more intensively the abyss looks back.
Yes, I agree that it's definitely good to have others calling us back away from edges we might get lost in. And, also, like you write, to recognize that other's are projecting their own fears and anger towards us.
I suppose we are all mirroring one another so that we might see what we are unable to ourselves.