[...]king 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)

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)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ='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

from dysphoric to euphoric self-consciousness

the direct link(='qstn'>?) between ="trms">socioeconomic status and development of ="trms">paranoia
(physically='lgc'>:) high blood pressure ='and'>& hardening of the arterial walls (& ="trms">drug abuse) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> decline in brain circulation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">paranoid reaction


="large lg6" stl="font-size:132%"> still ="trms">paranoia has a better prognosis (تشخيص قبلى) than ="trms">schizophrenia
(="trms">paranoia is a limited ="trms">schizophrenia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we should open up our ="trms">paranoiac relating ="trms">onto the ="trms">schizophrenic, which is much more ="trms">interesting)

state of deafness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">paranoia

="lsts lst1">•in ="ppl">Freud='lgc'>: ="trms">paranoia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> patient's infantile ="trms">relation to his father
="lsts lst1">•for Cameron='lgc'>: one cannot take the role assigned to him by the ="trms">society ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hypothetical ="trms">relationships with other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">paranoia
="lsts lst1">•Bose='lgc'>: break between the ego and its object, a bond of identity
="lsts lst1">•Otto Rank='lgc'>: myth of the birth of the hero ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world appears as a whole, or womb (a ="trms">cosmological projection)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>: foreclosure, Verwerfung (='lgc'>=/= repression ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">neurosis='lgc'>])='lgc'>: the ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of the father, (the fundamental signifier of the Name-of-the-Father is the object of foreclosure) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a hole in the ="trms">symbolic order ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sooner or later foreclosed Name-of-the-Father reappears in the real and the subject is unable to assimilate it ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*collision with the inassimilable signifier='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> entry into psychosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> delusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="trms">paranoia

(="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>+ Manning ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex's register of good thinking='lgc'>: “doing philosophy is better than knowing philosophy” ...)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]'to do philosophy’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">imaginary register ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the ego='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]'to know philosophy’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">symbolic register ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the subject='strcls'>*
(in ="ppl">Lacan) connaissance (Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge) belongs to the ="trms">imaginary register ='lgc'>=/= savoir (knowing) belongs to the ="trms">symbolic register (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you can track down the egocentrism of the philosopher='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]connaissance (Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{self-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the subject in the ="trms">imaginary order. based on misrecognition, a fantasy of self-mastery and unity, constitutive of the ego. it has the same structure as ="trms">paranoia (involving the delusion of absolute knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and mastery)='lgc'>}
='lgc'>=/=
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]savoir (knowing)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{="trms">articulation of signifiers in the subject's ="trms">symbolic universe, the signifying chain='lgc'>}

i use (sometimes as="trms">sociative) speech in collective research life as a progressive revelation of ="trms">symbolic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to the subject, where knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is the jouissance of the Other ='lgc'>=/= “absolute knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge”

='lgc'>[what ever we say about the ="trms">symbolic is utterly important='lgc'>: because from the ="trms">anthropological work of ="ppl">Strauss on the exchange of gifts that regulate kinship ="trms">relations, emergence of ="trms">symbolic structures was conceptualized as an essential feature of the human ="trms">transition from ="trms">nature to culture, to Saussure's theory of the sign='lgc'>: exchanges of signifiers, to ="ppl">Lacanian psychoanalysis='lgc'>: the impose of ="trms">symbolic structures on sexuality='lgc'>]


defense='lgc'>: reaction of the ego to certain ="trms">interior stimuli (and not the external) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Freud
(in ="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*defense='lgc'>: permanent ="trms">symbolic structures of subjectivity ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*resistance='lgc'>: ="trms">transitory ="trms">imaginary ="trms">responses to intrusions of the ="trms">symbolic (on the side of the object)

the ="trms">neurotic and the ="trms">pervert defend themselves in their ='strcls'>*desire='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= psychotic defends himself in their ='strcls'>*projection='strcls'>*

“to desire” is a defense mechanism (against going beyond a certain limit in jouissance='qstn'>?)

(>this is all about) the psychotic ="trms">relation to reality and the ="trms">relation of the subject to his speech


='strcls'>*unreal is transparent (for the ="trms">paranoid)='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-hermeneutics of suspicion (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Nietzsche's perspectivism='lgc'>: all texts are but autobiographic ="trms">memoirs)


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='lgc'>[="ppl">Searles='lgc'>]

="trms">schizophrenic individual is struggling with the ="trms">question, not so much of ‘how to relate,’ but ‘whether to relate’ to others

(="ppl">Searles's ="trms">interpersonal ideal='lgc'>:) connection='lgc'> = relatedness without merging

spontaneous involvement of the therapist in terms of counter="trms">transference (pygmalionesque ="trms">love='qstn'>?)

psychological illness='lgc'> = a dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance of ="trms">natural tendency to heal others (patient's unconscious therapeutic initiative)

“all patients have the ability to ‘="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the unconscious’ of the therapist” (="ppl">Searles)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:115%"> ='strcls'>*acknowledging what the patient's ="trms">transference ="trms">materializes='strcls'>*

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="nms">apass's aetiology='lgc'>: the philosophical study of ="trms">causation of disease
(deriving from the ="trms">Greek words aitia='lgc'> = cause and logos='lgc'> = word/speech) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “tell me what causes your psychosis or art”

(thing that actually drives you crazy='lgc'>:)
other individuals ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ tormentingly insecure ="trms">nature of the ever-ambivalent ="trms">symbiotic relatedness in infancy and ="trms">childhood='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">schizophrenia
nonhuman environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">Anxiety(='qstn'>?)
="trms">symbolic bad object ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> depression(='qstn'>?) (always an active state)

(poorly ="trms">integrated personality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) externalized psychosis (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “acting out”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">situations which will) engender psychosis in other people (='strcls'>*whereas they themselves remain immune from overt ="trms">symptoms='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- in smaller/="trms">different doses of psychological assault of the very selfish people who externalize their “ideas” and “impressions” by telling effective ="trms">stories about them, and so on. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**determine psychosis in others and protect themselves from psychosis='strcls'>** ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Arjang, ="frds scrmbld">Jassem, ="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )

psychological assault by parent upon the ="trms">child (reflected in the ="trms">child's earliest delusion) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> meeting ="trms">child's own defensive and aggressive requirements to avoid psychosis='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">schizophrenia (="trms">symbiotic relatedness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> within an dependence-independence ="trms">schizophrenic struggle the patient's belief is that if he should improve and become well in the normal sense ='lgc'>[if he becomes an individual by separating himself psychologically from her='lgc'>], his mother would become psychotic)
(='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]adulthood='lgc'>: not getting crazy by others ='lgc'>[people, ="trms">pasts, events, objects, etc.='lgc'>] while connecting with them ='lgc'>~ ='at'>#my de="trms">finition of ="trms">storytelling http://="nms">ajayeb.net/='qstn'>?q=figuring='lgc'>+out='lgc'>+how='lgc'>+to='lgc'>+in="trms">herit)
(a psychodynamic='lgc'>:) ‘desire for individuation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> drive the mother crazy’ ='lgc'>~ ‘kill the parent ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> really grow up’


="ppl">Searles's notion of “tends to drive him crazy” (='lgc'>~ ="trms">schizophrenic) ='lgc'>: the initiating of any kind of ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">interaction which tends to foster emotional conflict in the other person='lgc'>--which tends to activate various areas of his personality in op="trms">position to one another


maintenance of a functioning ego

="lsts lst1">•inexperienced or unconsciously sadistic analyst (who makes ='strcls'>*premature ="trms">interpretations='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> drive the patient psychotic (weaken the patient's ego to gradually assimilate previously repressed ="trms">material...)
="lsts lst1">•stimulate the other person sexually (in a setting where gratification is impossible='lgc'>--='thdf'>for example to behave in a seductive way toward the ="trms">child) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> conflict (between sexual needs on the one hand, and ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous super-ego retaliations)

parental double bind
='strcls'>**="trms">simultaneous or rapidly alternating stimulation-and-frustration of other needs='strcls'>** ='lgc'>==="ppl">Searles='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a dis="trms">integrating effect
='strcls'>**chronic pleas for ="trms">sympathy='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">child's desire and felt-duty to be helpful

="frds scrmbld">Jassem/="frds">Sina typically engaging the other in some politico-philosophical debate, in which he talks with machine-gun rapidity expressing himself with a virile kind of forceful, businesslike vigour (while the other feels quite strongly urged to argue some of these points with him, though not being given a chance to say much), while he strolls about on his mobile phone and posing himself physically irrelevant to the other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when in-fronted with ="frds scrmbld">Jassem or ="frds">Sina, one feels strange (losing your mind, feeling like an insecure ="trms">child ='strcls'>*engaged in such a broadly divided ="trms">interrelatedness with a parent='strcls'>*) while that feeling appears as simply a ‘crazy’ product of one's own ="trms">imagination

(is non-="trms">verbal ="trms">interaction always sexual='qstn'>?)

="large lg6" stl="font-size:114%"> nonsequitur (a typical ="trms">schizophrenic ="trms">technique)

(to get free from) the delusion that you had had not one mother but many ="trms">different ones

a continual unexpected switching from one conversational topic to another without any marked shift in feeling-content is in itself a mode of ="trms">interpersonal participation which can have a significantly dis="trms">integrating effect upon the other person's psychological functioning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a remark for me in my ="trms">lecture-performances, i can't cause dis="trms">integration on other people's thinking for the sake of art ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to undermine the other person's confidence in the reliability of their own emotional reactions and of their own perception of outer reality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> de-maintain grasp on reality ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (often) artist's fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure to develop ='strcls'>**adequate reality testing='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-the artist is not allowed to make the audience crazy!!='qstn'>?='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem, Dominguez's “mental cruelty”

="trms">techniques of undermining of ego-functioning (in the form of='lgc'>: deliberate experiments in the service of totalitarian political ideologies, cultural undercurrents in ="trms">present-day democratic ="trms">societies, and in the lives of the ="trms">schizophrenic)

="prgrph">-what are the effects of your work on other's ability of participation in life='qstn'>?

="ppl">Searles='lgc'>: effort to drive the other person crazy can be motivated predominantly by a desire to externalize the threatening craziness in oneself
(-artists do that='qstn'>?)

='strcls'>*introjected crazy parent='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> predominance of the one's own irrational and cripplingly powerful superego)
(parents, crazy or not crazy, are always introjected='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])


="trms">love and solicitude (in mother-="trms">child relatedness) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> impel the ="trms">child to collaborate with mother in this pathological ="trms">integration
="prgrph">-="trms">child ="trms">loves her mother so deeply that he sacrifices his own developing individuality to the ="trms">symbiosis necessary to her personality-functioning


="frds scrmbld">Foad's psychology='lgc'>: bringing upon himself any catastrophe which is sensed as being inevitable, in his effort to diminish intolerable feelings of helplessness and suspense in the face of it


(parents who are not sufficiently openly psychotic ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">child secret knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of parent's craziness ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">child's ="trms">transference ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always one or another of the parents was “a little crazy”
='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ not to mention that one strugghng against a developing psychosis will project his or her own threatening ‘craziness’ on to one or another parent='lgc'>]


desire to find a soul-mate to assuage unbearable loneliness ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a parental motive reflected in ="trms">child's fanatical loyalty to the parent
(the very lonely person who hungers for someone to share her or his private emotional experiences and distorted views of the ="trms">world) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “tried out” her ="trms">paranoid ideas on him (!!='strcls'>**)
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> chronic ="trms">schizophrenia='lgc'>]

our immediately and vividly real parent-image ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a libidinally cathected reality

(to get free from) our magically ‘close,’ magically ‘="trms">mutually understanding,’ two-against-the-="trms">world relatedness with the parent

infantile-omnipotent relatedness between='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ‘sickest’ least mature areas of the parent's personality
="lsts lst1">•the patient's personality
='lgc'>==="ppl">Searles='lgc'>='lgc'>==> obstacle to the patient's becoming well

="trms">transference development='lgc'>: therapist inevitably becomes deeply immersed in the subjective experience of magical closeness and shared omnipotence with the patient

(offered to the patient in ="trms">childhood by the parent='lgc'>:) the ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure='strcls'>* to share the delights of being ‘crazy’ along with the parent


or='lgc'>:
(='qstn'>?="frds scrmbld">Jassem or ="frds">Sina's motive and genuine effort of) making the other person crazy (='lgc'>~ to weaken their personal ="trms">integration ='lgc'>~ to diminish the area of ego's competency) ='lgc'><='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> ='strcls'>*making the other person ="trms">present='strcls'>* (="ppl">Martin Buber) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fostering of the other person's ="trms">intra-personal and ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">integration or self-realization, (an effort to) to help the other person ='lgc'>[seen as a ="trms">child to become mature='qstn'>?='lgc'>] toward better ="trms">integration ='lgc'>~ ="trms">love

='lgc'>[for ="ppl">Guattari, the problem is not to reach an ="trms">integrated ego, but to constantly change the com="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to unblock the ="trms">situation (reactive assemblages causing ="trms">paranoia) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to be able to do something else ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> to become someone else='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[how to learn your way out of philosophy as philosopher ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*to apprehend what you know='strcls'>* in a creative way='lgc'>]

="trms">loving relatedness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">responding to the wholeness of the other person (relating to a small ="trms">child or to a psychiatrically ill adult, and so on)

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (which is fundamentally) a parental dis="trms">position ='lgc'>[and the offspring might re="trms">present a miscarriage of the parent's wish='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the problem is that you cannot always know the precise ego-capacities of the other person
="prgrph">-your ="trms">interventions could be ill-timed or ill-attuned ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dis="trms">integrating effect


="trms">questions regarding the processes of feedbacking in ="nms">apass='lgc'>: to help the other person (not to become aware of truth about themselves or their work, rather) to construct figures about themselves and their ="trms">relationships with others, figures which could provide the basis for rapid ego-growth and personality-="trms">integration. but sometimes it is too fast, the ego regresses, and it becomes an experience of developing psychosis

="large lg10" stl="font-size:133%"> pathological defense='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•delusions
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinations
="lsts lst1">•depersonalization
="lsts lst1">•

="trms">skilfully dosed and ="trms">skilfully timed increments in psychotherapeutic participation ='lgc'>[such as premature ="trms">interpretations ="trms">demanded usually in feedback sessions='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> op="trms">posite effects (rather than an ="trms">integrating effect upon the artist rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer)


the ="trms">schizophrenic patient's individuality resides partly in his ="trms">symptoms
(="ppl">Searles > Szalita-Pemow)


='qstn'>?gratifications in the ‘crazy’ ="trms">symbiotic mode of relatedness (despite the ="trms">anxiety- and frustration-engendering aspects that it offers)

earlier struggle between ="trms">child and parent to drive each other crazy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evolving ="trms">transference of the patient-therapist ="trms">relationship ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to crack each other


the economy ='strcls'>*feelings of confusion and unreality='strcls'>* for ="nms">iranians, in public political realm of state and individual ="trms">symbiosis, as well as ="trms">intersubjective early ="trms">childhood and parent ="trms">symbiosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ways it enters cultural ="trms">imaginary and artistic expressiveness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*how and why ="nms">iranian artists often try to make their audience crazy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[-and myself in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, check ="frds">Sina ="trms">lecture's chaotic ="trms">verbalizations of delusional ="trms">materials ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> jouissance of disorganization='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-(in my ="trms">lectures) am i externalizing my psychosis='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ romantic='lgc'>]

(mother repeatedly commanding the ="trms">child ‘Now, think!’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ to perceive the secret='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) threatened, mistrustful, isolated self ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> finding hidden meanings ='lgc'>+ sarcastic ="trms">response ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> unnerving the other='lgc'>]

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> small ="trms">children exposed to unfamiliar and complex ="trms">situations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> often experience of ‘you are crazy!’

="large lg10" stl="font-size:132%">
="trms">modern culture of obsessive-compulsive character traits as orderliness, competitiveness, intellectualization ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> obsessive-compulsive type of basic personality structure (is made very common among artists, people who are busy one way or another with analysis and psyche of the other) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>**reaction formation='strcls'>** (which is one of the major defense mechanisms of the obsessive-compulsive) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= long-repressed desires ='strcls'>**to dis="trms">member the personality-structure of other persons='strcls'>**
='lgc'>[obsessive-compulsive personality type is very common in expertise ="trms">societies='lgc'>: tavahosh-e takhasos, clean (='lgc'>+ “contaminated” things), one is deeply immersed in research, mental control, not wasting time, adherence to ="trms">routines/rituals, washers, checkers, impairment in ="trms">formulating an organizational strategy, etc. ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cognitive inhibition, or violent disinhibition='lgc'>]

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