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Paranoia is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear , often to the point of irrationality and delusion . Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state. In modern colloquial use, the term “paranoia” is sometimes misused to describe a phobia . [1] The general lack of blame in phobia disorders sharply differentiates the two.
Inflation
Some of our best minds have been taken from us by UFOs
Damon Knight Squeezed
Reich as an example
Ideas of Reference
Confucius: Tame a wild horse … finding that right medium between imagination and reality
Confabulation as a form of aphophenia …. narrative makes disjointed memories smoother
Kuleshov and Man with a Camera (Grammar for a New Media)
(From: Wikipedia)
Apophenia Links:
- Jorge Luis Borges‘s Book of Sand
- Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire
- Thomas Pynchon‘s Crying of Lot 49
- Hermann Rorschach’s Rorschach test
- Schactel Experienial Foundations
Epiphany Links:
- Jorge Luis Borges‘sThe Garden of Forking Paths
- Arthur Koestler’s The Act of Creation
- Sigmund Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
Paranoia is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear , often to the point of irrationality and delusion . Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state. In modern colloquial use, the term “paranoia” is sometimes misused to describe a phobia . [1] The general lack of blame in phobia disorders sharply differentiates the two.
Inflation
Some of our best minds have been taken from us by UFOs
Damon Knight Squeezed
Reich as an example
Ideas of Reference
Confucius: Tame a wild horse … finding that right medium between imagination and reality
Confabulation as a form of aphophenia …. narrative makes disjointed memories smootherWith Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors that arise from heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982; Tversky & Kahneman, 1974), and developed prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979).
Projective Testing
Klecksography is the art of making images from inkblots.[1] The work was pioneered by Justinus Kerner, who included klecksographs in his books of poetry.[2]
Hermann Rorschach created the inkblot test in 1921
Using interpretation of “ambiguous designs” to assess an individual’s personalityInterpretation of inkblots was central to a game, Gobolinks,[12] from the late 19th century.
It has been suggested that Rorschach’s use of inkblots may have been inspired by German doctor Justinus Kerner who, in 1857, had published a popular book of poems, each of wh
ich was inspired by an accidental inkblot.[14] French psychologist Alfred Binet had also experimented with inkblots as a creativity test,[15] and, after the turn of the century, psychological experiments where inkblots were utilized multiplied, with aims such as studying imagination and consciousness.[16]
Samuel Beck, Bruno Klopfer , Evald Bohm, which is closer to the original Rorschach system and rooted more deeply in the original psychoanalysis principles.
Rorschach never intended the inkblots to be used as a general personality test, but developed them as a tool for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. It was not until 1939 that the test was used as a projective test of personality, a use of which Rorschach had always been skeptical.
Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI)
A short game sheds light on why no one likes to be wrong.
