Thank you for a beautifully insightful perspective, @barge.
Also: R.D.Laing has always been one of my favourite psychologists.
I am on-board with your perspective that the UK may be, collectively, in in the throes of an ego-death. The question, as always with such transformations is: To what extent will the patient (the UK) scream, bluster, and grab destructively at objects in his immediate environment, before concluding that the only sensible way through this transition is to sit and breathe quietly, surrendering to the panic of extinction, yet confident in the knowledge that metamorphosis — a necessary rebirth — is imminent.
The UK strikes me as a 'patient' who will likely throw many more chairs through the windows of the ward before this transformation is done.
RE: Brexit as suicide: The psychology of self-harm