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annihilation, rage, ecstasy, madness, deception, apocalypse, desertion, contagion, eternity, the shadow
imperative to restlessness
="trms">writing-act as inherently antagonistic
borders of subjectivity='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•dominant ideologies of ="trms">history
="lsts lst1">•conspiracies of identity
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="frds scrmbld">Foad's ="trms">poem “farar”
textual experience as a prism of subversion, innovation, and becoming
="lsts lst1">•hardened instinct for ruin kharabat خرابات
="lsts lst1">•fusion of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦appearance ='and'>& disappearance
="lsts lst2">◦tragedy ='and'>& delirium
="lsts lst2">◦creation ='and'>& destruction
="lsts lst1">•(unsteady condition of the ="trms">writing-act ='lgc'>[unpacks itself without o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='lgc'>] where) ='strcls'>*nothingness ='and'>& ="trms">excess='strcls'>* tangle
b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring of possibility and impossibility
to ="trms">compose an ="trms">affective universe without recourse to the myth of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin (='strcls'>*='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to express a singular voice without access to a name
his ="trms">literary-="trms">poetic mosaics
tracking the chaotic ="trms">imaginary
(subjectivity's) disas="trms">sociation from the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hedayat's The Blind Owl (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- an overreactive consciousness='qstn'>?)
='strcls'>*one that owes nothing to what came before='strcls'>*
a consciousness once held ho="trms">stage
='strcls'>*carving inward and then assuming a combatitive stance='strcls'>*
ever quickening its velocity, only then to exhaust its force and vanish as if exorcised into breathlessness (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is this body='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ persistent injury ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chronic wearing-down ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> subjectivity is overcome ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*acceptance of cruelty='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= death wish) ='lgc'>: raising the stakes of existential experience by transmitting the ="trms">authorial self beyond its own limits and toward its chaotic possibility (='lgc'>=/= death wish)
annihilation epitomized as instance of vicious ="trms">travel='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?!
thought-scarring ="trms">affect
(radical modification of consciousness='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•Kierkegaard='lgc'>: “I die death itself”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Bataille='lgc'>: “he who does not ‘die’ from being merely a man will never be other than a man” ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Rumi's bemirid بمیرید بمیرید
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Nietzschean call for an experience of the end='lgc'>: “from ="trms">love of life, one should desire a ="trms">different death='lgc'>: free, conscious, without accident, without ambush”
="lsts lst1">•Cioran's futurity that would “let all form become formless, and chaos shwallow the structure of the ="trms">world in a gigantic maelstrom, that would be tremendous commotion and noise, terror, and explosion, and then let be eternal silence and total forgetfulness”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari's meditation on life overrun by “desiring machines for whom the self and the non-self, outside and inside, no longer have any meaning whatsoever”
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Benjamin's “destructive character” clearing away
an annihilative ="trms">technique
="trms">writing-act and the ='strcls'>*conceptual terrain of fatality='strcls'>*
an ecstatic mode
bringing consciousness to sleep
='strcls'>***rage='lgc'> = ="trms">excess ='lgc'>+ shadow (='lgc'>~ blackout) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> formlessness ='lgc'>[example='lgc'>: Hedayat='lgc'>: ="trms">author's misshapen ="trms">hallucination, beggin for an end to subjectivity and existence to “surrender myself to the sleep of oblivion"='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*individous potentials='strcls'>* of the rage (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of the rage)
="prgrph">-(="frds scrmbld">Sana's) ="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered dis="trms">position
(as a) performativity of ignition and collapse
='strcls'>**rage/="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger is always (sees itself as) innocent='strcls'>**
rage proceeds as a state of innocence, a forward moving clearance, to become an ="trms">agent of sheer delivery, to commit at will
innocence tries to re="trms">member ='lgc'>~ that which “re="trms">members” has become foremost innocent. wants its ="trms">members/phallus back
='lgc'>[rage components='lgc'>: innocence, forgetting, coldness='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impact without imprint (='lgc'>--we must always have an imprint of our impacts)
the text becomes existence itself (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">monsterous consciousness of Hedayat's ="trms">narrator in The Blind Owl)
every object, event, or image, is synthesized back into the empire of the ="trms">narrator's own account='strcls'>***** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work, my ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>]
...fastened itself to...
(...currents of)
chaos='strcls'>**='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~
annihilation='strcls'>**='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~
rage='strcls'>**='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~
='strcls'>*shadow='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**to elicit the trans="trms">figuration toward an emergent ="trms">literature of the inhuman='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•Hedayat's shadow
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Nietzsche use of the shadow as a guarantor of the overman='lgc'>: “how his shadow stands even now behind everyone” , “now light, now shadow of that which must come” , “i will complete it='lgc'>: for a shadow came to me='lgc'>--the most silent, the lightest of all things came to me! the beauty of the superman came to me as a shadow='lgc'>: what are the gods to me now”
tilted destiny
beyond the need for being
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chaos experienced as a ='strcls'>*deception='strcls'>*
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali motioning to chaotic discord, his ="trms">rhetoric of video editing='lgc'>: phantasmatic lawlessness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> surrender the text to a certain sorcery(!), schemes of a textual unreality
='lgc'>=/= restrictive ="trms">epistemologies of truth
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">technologies of regulation
convulsive discontinuity (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">systematicity)
carries the will to execute fantasia
(yet transpiring ="trms">morphologies that carve in) ="trms">authoritarian injunctions of being-in-the-="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= experimentation='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's mirage='lgc'>:) suffocated prism of reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rebellion becomes instinctive
="prgrph">-="trms">narrating graphic instances of ="trms">sociopolitical violence ='lgc'>--view='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">modernity as a state of permanent collapse
(for ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali ='lgc'>:) ="trms">literature/art='lgc'> = espionage عمل خرابکارانه در مواضع دشمن (='lgc'>=/= bribery)
(in order to say no to being) “passive witness to an overconstructed ="trms">world” ='lgc'>=/=
="lsts lst1">•Beckett='lgc'>: absurdism (with minima="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list penteration)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>: intoxication (Dionysian assault against surface/depth binary)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Adorno='lgc'>: fantasy (is the real act of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]text='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">mimetic trans="trms">position of the ideal
="lsts lst1">•reflexive treatment of the ="trms">world
the invention of transparent='strcls'>**
='lgc'>[who invented transparency='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
deception ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sug="trms">gestion of the ="trms">world as unreal ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>='qstn'>?! ="trms">pragmatism='lgc'>]
lucid ="trms">interchange of untruths
existential distortion
San'an ='lgc'>+ moridan (مریدان) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">authority of authenticity
annihilated consciousness of the disciple (morid)
(volatility of) lived dreamscapes ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (always) ="trms">staged ="trms">imaginary
(illusions go on unarrested)
="frds scrmbld">Hoda's visual ="trms">techniques (in video) ='lgc'>~ her special effects (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> launches what='qstn'>?)='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*unreality of the emergent ="trms">world='strcls'>* (='lgc'>+ production of emergent illusion)
="lsts lst1">•hazing of self and ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•curved mirroring
="lsts lst1">•shape-shifting
="lsts lst1">•aerial, apparitional,
="lsts lst1">•فرّار evasive and a="trms">morphous
="prgrph">-='lgc'>=> seamless apparition
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***eradicated ="trms">storytelling='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>+ “I” as a spectral outcast of consciousness
='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Hoda works on the unsaid (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the imperceptible)
='strcls'>*="frds">Sina works on the incomprehensible (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? the incidental)
="frds scrmbld">Hoda's insurgent ="trms">imagination in her cinematic ="trms">techniques (part of the intellectual-="trms">aesthetic facet of middle eastern subjectivity)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•into a terrain of necessary ambiguity
="lsts lst1">•="trms">demanding an ="trms">interpretive participation of a disturbed audience
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Benjaminian) “public is an examiner but an absent-minded one”
(how can ="frds scrmbld">Hoda in her medium of film create points of departure from insurgent ="trms">imagination='qstn'>? she constantly recon="trms">situtes the insurgent ="trms">imagination ='strcls'>*یاغی yaghi='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one of the most important post="trms">modern masks of ="nms">iranian contemporary art)
(="frds scrmbld">Elen='qstn'>? no longer convinced of her own entitlement to a reality principle)
the ="trms">imaginary and ="trms">symbolic functions of the penis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Elen has to study ‘phallus’
="ppl">Lacan's phallus is a (privileged) signifier of lack and sexual ="trms">difference ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both of them are initiator for ="frds scrmbld">Elen's performance in the first week of ="nms">apass 2018
phallus anchors the chain of signification (the ="trms">imaginary, the ="trms">symbolic and the real) for her
is it about an Oedipus complex='qstn'>? in all her work she is identify with the ="trms">imaginary phallus. (her ="trms">staged “flaw” in doing so is camouflaging an Oedipus complex='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? ="frds scrmbld">Elen='lgc'>: will to possession
who possesses a penis='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> masturbatory jouissance
='strcls'>*the one who possesses the phallus='lgc'> = the one desired='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ phallus='lgc'> = desire ‘of’ the other ='lgc'>=/= desiring the other='lgc'>]. phallus is the signifier of jouissance within ="frds scrmbld">Elen's performance
="frds scrmbld">Elen's retribution of the boy who ="trms">symbolically ‘have’ the phallus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (we are back to) castration
='strcls'>**="frds scrmbld">Elen's true woman-power lies with giving up her phallic identification. (the image of innovation in her work='lgc'>: she is still busy with ‘inovative creativity,’ inherently a phallic function). this is a hope, the ="trms">symbolic phallus ins her work (and in anyone's work) is often in the place of ='strcls'>*the lack of the signifier in the Other='strcls'>* (that can never be filled='qstn'>?)
infantile sexuality
jouissance='lgc'>: enjoyment from indirect pleasure (='thdf'>for example enjoyment of organizing pleasure)
="ppl">Lacan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pleasure makes us guilty ='lgc'>+ without guilt there is no pleasure
='strcls'>*chaotic topology of ="trms">imagination='strcls'>*( ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> more like a pile of sugar ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Freudian topology of consciousness/unconsciousness)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> erasing the boundary between ="trms">interiority and exteriority
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (once-unitary) subject ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> an oblique ="trms">network ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that is us, ="nms">iranians
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">schizoid view of nomadological thought
separate ="trms">methodologies of b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurring and fragmentation='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- shadow
="lstsrd">2- mirror image
Hedayat's shadow (his palpable ="trms">aesthetic-existential operation='lgc'>--in The Blind Owl) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Kafka's ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses='lgc'>]='lgc'>: skeletal trans="trms">figuration of a conceivably human form into a ='strcls'>*shadow collectivity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= camouflage='lgc'>]
anticipation of oblivion
="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld">Foad,
(maybe ="trms">interesting for ="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>:) bitching ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= concerted ="trms">methodology of confrontation and provocation
to ="trms">write on chaos
to ="trms">write as chaos
to ="trms">write chaos='strcls'>***
='lgc'>[an ="nms">iranian topology of ="trms">imagination:='lgc'>]
subjectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deception
="trms">literature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rage
chaos ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> annihilation
deserter
textual encounter ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">method by which a chaotic ="trms">imaginary is uncovered and set loose='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure consciousness into desertion
="lstsrd">2. perceive textual artifacts as forces of immanent contagion
="lstsrd">3. identify the text as a carrier of shadow-becoming
="lstsrd">4. text conceive the setting of inhuman
deserter (="trms">position) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unearthing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chaotic ="trms">imagination
...a fractal exteriority that alters and generates vivid, intensified hierarchies of instinct, desire, and knowing='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*exhaustion
damaged allegory of man
='strcls'>*evacuation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> surrender to fugitive ="trms">trajectory
takes place on a="trms">morphous dust
wrenched
shadow-scapes
enterence ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ejection
="lsts lst1">•misadventurism of the wanderer
="lsts lst1">•rogue thought
influx
dis="trms">integration
fever
velocity
the deserter mind is made to ="trms">synchronize the ="trms">internalization of waste and unrest and to ravage itself
spatiality of the the nowhere
intentionally sets out to become lost
vagrant='lgc'>: drifter در به در
اوباش
self that personified the dejected
self-eclipsing vagrant that becomes the outside itself
arc of necessity
the super-power of holding objects suspending in the air ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an intruder topology where everything is held suspend...
='lgc'>{ false subjectivity='lgc'> = hiding place ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- chaotic ="trms">imagination overruns it
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="ppl">="ppl">Glissant
constrictions of the ‘forced ="trms">poetics’ of ="trms">writing (in plastic arts)
grandiose concept of the ="trms">writer (of ="trms">writing as an ordering process)
="trms">world meant as raw ="trms">material for a ="trms">book
="ppl">="ppl">Glissant's thoroughgoing exploration of models of disorder/chaos ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (his subversive epitome of) ='strcls'>*opa="trms">cite/opacity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> realm of the intuitive and indeterminate as a corrective ="trms">response to the ="trms">systematizing pressures of assimilation and deculturation
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> to create a more immediate, oral, corporeal ="trms">language
="prgrph">-inadequate process of attempting to note down, chronicle or relate the experience of opacity
chaos ='lgc'>+ opacity ='lgc'>+ resistance (in ="ppl">="ppl">Glissant)
primordial act of defiance lajbazi
negation='lgc'> = heroic (='lgc'>=/= pedestrian)
="ppl">="ppl">Glissant's anonymous and pedestrian form of resistance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of camouflaged reality
“The one with whom the ="trms">poet is enchanted, that he names with each breath. But for whom words are inadequate.”
...in the unexpected expanse of global relating
“a ="trms">poetics not of the tree but of vegetation”
='lgc'>[="trms">poetics of the decentered subject='lgc'>]
epitomise (pure) revolt (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tree grows to reveal human con="trms">figurations, fierce and solitary revolt against the plantation ="trms">system)
modest forms of resistance
fragmentation of ="trms">fiction ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> polyphonic quiltwork of ="trms">stories
='lgc'>[="trms">system of imagery='lgc'>]
(="ppl">="ppl">Glissant's) insistence on marine ="trms">symbolism
transforming, restorative power of water
harsh bitter truth of the sea ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inscrutable, ambiguous ="trms">nature of the experience
preoccupation with the need to create a ="trms">literary ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">specificity of lived experience
='strcls'>*="trms">narrateur enfant='strcls'>*
="trms">narrator distorting and simplifying my experience
“burning with a silent and stubborn multitude”
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Mishra
='lgc'>[the evidence of Europe's advantages ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] an expression of europe in terms of a 19th century progress, which has been be increasingly hard to refute='lgc'>:
place of West in the avant-garde of progress ='lgc'><== mani="trms">fold achievements of ="trms">technology, constitutional government, secular state and ="trms">modern administration ='lgc'><== (a separate and
distinct ‘nation-state’ ='lgc'><==) American and French revolutions
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unable to assess by Muslims='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the tale of the be="trms">wildered Asian='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•dast-e gheyb دست غیب divinely ordained dispensation
="lsts lst1">•dast-e taghdir دست تقدیر mysterious workings of fate
="lsts lst1">•charkh-e ruzegar چرخ روزگار cyclical rise and fall of political fortune
="lsts lst1">•uncreative dynastic rulers
(='lgc'>=/= organized human energy and action)
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cultural arrogance
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="trms">paranoia (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">schizophrenia), an instinct (for the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal hostility of the ="trms">world, name of the ="trms">world is ‘conflict’ ='lgc'>=/= instinctual needs for acceptance and for the assignment of a place)
para ='lgc'>+ nous (='lgc'>~ out of mind, beside the mind) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> part of the everyday life ='lgc'>: when you think you are “somebody” or you have “="trms">agency” you are on a small dose of ="trms">paranoid delusion. ='lgc'>{do we always need some dose of ="trms">paranoia to form critical ="trms">relations with our current condition='qstn'>?
="trms">according to ="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (connaissance) itself is ="trms">paranoiac='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> psychoanalytic treatment='lgc'> = inducing controlled ="trms">paranoia into the human subject='strcls'>***
='strcls'>*preconditions of all human knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is the “="trms">paranoiac alienation of the ego”='strcls'>* (ego='lgc'>: a ='lgc'>[="trms">paranoiac='lgc'>] construction formed by identification with the specular image in the mirror ="trms">stage)='lgc'>}
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> high thoughts and abstract thinkers, especially when they believe “nobody understands them”
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> also promotes you to go to forbidden zones, attack sacrosanctities, breaking taboos, take the side of the miserable and the marginalized, that there is something wrong about The ="trms">World
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> always dissatisfied with the ‘current ="trms">situation,’ impulse to correct the current ="trms">situation (... our condition, our ="trms">situation), and assuming a defensive stance, (in worse case) with a sense of ="trms">mission, with deep feelings of powerlessness (and depression, sometimes victimization)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> their own psychological security (='lgc'>~ defense against fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure and loss; a fact of relevance for ="trms">obligation)
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it is all about ='lgc'>['having’ or owning a='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*perception of reality='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> belief)
to recognize the intentional in the accidental/coincidental
(a ="trms">paranoid ="trms">response to intentionality='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">imaginary friend or ="trms">imaginary enemy
='at'>#="trms">complain
sisyphus ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that one is condemned (by the “="trms">system”) to do senseless absurd meaningless labor
(Maze Runner film opening sign='lgc'>:) “we are running out of time. you have seen what is happening out there.” ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> insurgent
four types of ="trms">paranoia='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ="trms">erotic شهوانى (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what the op="trms">posite sex wants from them)
="lstsrd">2. persecutory توبیخی (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> under intensive evaluative scrutiny)
="lstsrd">3. litigious دعوایی (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conspiracy)
="lstsrd">4. exalted متعالی (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> grandeur)
='strcls'>*attribution error='lgc'>: ="trms">social perceivers has to overattribute lack of trustworthiness to others
='strcls'>*overperception of ="trms">causal linking='lgc'>: ="trms">paranoid perceiver has to ="trms">interpret others’ action in a disproportional self-referential way ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> they are the target of others’ thoughts and actions
='strcls'>*conspiracy='lgc'>: ="trms">paranoid perceiver has to overattribute ="trms">social coherence and coordination to others’ actions
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from dysphoric to euphoric self-consciousness
the direct link(='qstn'>?) between ="trms">socioeconomic status and development of ="trms">paranoia[...]