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Through a series of vignettes and fragments, the author explores everyday psychoses inherent in human life. Working under a conceptual framework of “outside/inside,” the nature of psychosis is observed in clinical experiences, primate behavior, the liminal space between dream, memory and consciousness and evolutionary development. Expanding on Bion's “containment,” Winnicott's “holding” and her own theories on prehistoric human development, she finds metaphor to be the sustaining human adaptation that colors it all. The paper presents a mosaic culled from the author's nonlinear method, revealing impressions, thoughts and the meaning of memories.