R.D. Laing, 1967 - A Reminder

"Words in a poem, sounds in movement, rhythm in space, attempt to recapture personal meaning in personal time and space from out of the sights and sounds of a depersonalised, dehumanised world. They are bridgeheads into alien territory. They are acts of insurrection. Their source is from the Silence at the centre of each of us".

From The Politics of Experience, VI, The experience of negation

Source: The Politics of Experience (1967), publ. Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Anti-Psychiatry, the Divided Self and the Word-Salad

"The ‘word-salad’ of the schizophrenic may contain more insight into the inner world than the psychiatric, medical, or psychoanalytic language we translate it into". Benjamin Noys, Verso

A number of relatively sane poets, psychiatrists and politicians (Cf. Brexit*) have also been known to use "a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases". 

NB A 'word salad' is quite different from 'gobbledygook"

gobbledygook (n.) - "the overinvolved, pompous talk of officialdom" [Klein], 1944, American English, first used by Texas politician Maury Maverick (1895-1954), in a memo dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language" and mock-threateaning, "anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot." Maverick said he made up the word in imitation of turkey noise".  www.etymonline.com



*BBC Guide to Brexit jargon, for instance