Quotes on Detente

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.