psychosis
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Exploration of ‘hallucinations’.
apperception, autism, cancellation signals, corollary discharge, first-person singular pronouns, From sensation to cognition, hallucinations, illusion, magic, mind’s ear, mind’s eye, occult, perception, Psychology of Music C E Seashore 1938, psychosis, schizophrenia, supernatural, talismanic, thought broadcasting, thought echo, thought insertionVisual hallucinations are due to activation of visual memory circuits by diffuse toxicity. The auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia are not perceptions without stimuli, they are apperceptions without responses, specifically the corollary discharges that normally indicate apperceptive ownership of one’s responses to perception: apperception minus corollary discharge equals perception. Arousal that has been inhibited during childhood…
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The adolescent who feared abandonment as a child has dissembled through crypsis and has dissimulated through camouflage and mimicry. Increased arousal causes the part of the adolescent that has survived through crypsis to surface as unconditioned responses, that is delusions, while the part of the adolescent that has been inhibited irretrievably, that is, deactivated, is…
To be or not to be. 