DOMAIN:

Sensation / Instinct 

CORE MEANING:

Direct encounter with reality 

thru the body.

CLINICAL DESCRIPTION:

A regressive somatic condition in which the subject seeks unmediated sensory experience beyond language, identity, and protection.

CORE PATHOLOGY:

Instinctual nostalgia.

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SYMPTOMS:

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-Heightened tactile sensitivity 

-Attraction to roughness, exposure, pain, and texture

-Rejection of comfort and insulation 

-Desire for the bodily knowledge over symbolic meaning 

PROGNOSIS:

Full return to animality remains impossible.Contact produces clarity but not refuge.