Filtered experience - Laing

"When experience from the outer world is filtered to the inner
self, this self can no longer either experience or give expression to
its own desires in a way that is socially acceptable.
Social acceptability has come to be merely a trick, a technique.
His own view of things, the meaning they have for him, his feelings, his expression, are now likely to be at least odd and eccentric,
if not bizarre and crazy. The self remains encapsulated more and
more within its own system, while adaptation and adjustment to
changing experiences have to be conducted by the false self. This
false-self system is apparently plastic: it operates with new people,
and adapts to changing surroundings. But the self does not keep
up with changes in the real world. The objects of its phantasy
relationships remain the same basic figures although they undergo
modification, for instance, in the direction of idealization, or they
become more persecutory. There is no thought of checking,
testing, correcting these phantom figures (imagos) in terms of
reality."