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“Peace: Freedom from mental, spiritual, or emotional disturbance; calm … freedom from, or cessation of war or hostilities … A state of friendliness.
Terror: The state of being terrified or extremely frightened; intense fear or dread … The state or quality of being terrible, or causing intense fear or dread.
Psychosis: Severe mental illness, derangement or disorder involving a loss of contact with reality, frequently with hallucinations, delusions, or altered thought processes, with or without known organic origin.” ( The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993, ed. )
Peace and terror are thought to be mutually exclusive concepts. Where there is one, there is, by definition, an absence of the other. Whilst peace comprises a ‘freedom from, or cessation of war or hostilities’, a ‘calm’ and ‘friendliness’, terror describes a state of being both ‘terrified’ and ‘terrible’, in other words of being at once a perpetrator and a victim of ‘fear or dread’. Terror in this way describes a ‘war-zone’ in which the experience of conflict and psychic pain is considerable.
The term ‘psychosis’ categorizes the most extreme end of mental ‘dis-ease’, a disorder in which acute levels of psychic pain and conflict are also implied. However, the pain and conflict that occurs in a psychotic organization may be manifested only