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Corngold, Stanley

doi:10.1515/9781400826131

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“…I feel shaken to the core of my being and can get out of myself whatever I desire. It is a matter of ... mysterious powers..." (cited by Corngold, [ 42 ], p. 23). Sleep deprivation may serve as a non-drug "psychotomimetic" model (i.e., producing a psychotic like state in healthy individuals) with attendant changes in dopamine in the striatum and NMDA and AMPA ionotropic glutamate receptor function in pre-frontal cortex [ 43 ].…”

Section: What Relevance Do the Neurobiological Studies Have To Kafka'mentioning

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Kafka, paranoic doubles and the brain: hypnagogic vs. hyper-reflexive models of disrupted self in neuropsychiatric disorders and anomalous conscious states

Mishara

2010

Philos Ethics Humanit Med

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Kafka's writings are frequently interpreted as representing the historical period of modernism in which he was writing. Little attention has been paid, however, to the possibility that his writings may reflect neural mechanisms in the processing of self during hypnagogic (i.e., between waking and sleep) states. Kafka suffered from dream-like, hypnagogic hallucinations during a sleep-deprived state while writing. This paper discusses reasons (phenomenological and neurobiological) why the self projects an imaginary double (autoscopy) in its spontaneous hallucinations and how Kafka's writings help to elucidate the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms. I further discuss how the proposed mechanisms may be relevant to understanding paranoid delusions in schizophrenia. Literature documents and records cognitive and neural processes of self with an intimacy that may be otherwise unavailable to neuroscience. To elucidate this approach, I contrast it with the apparently popularizing view that the symptoms of schizophrenia result from what has been called an operative (i.e., pre-reflective) hyper-reflexivity. The latter approach claims that pre-reflective self-awareness (diminished in schizophrenia) pervades all conscious experience (however, in a manner that remains unverifiable for both phenomenological and experimental methods). This contribution argues the opposite: the "self" informs our hypnagogic imagery precisely to the extent that we are not self-aware.

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Kafka, paranoic doubles and the brain: hypnagogic vs. hyper-reflexive models of disrupted self in neuropsychiatric disorders and anomalous conscious states

Mishara

2010

Philos Ethics Humanit Med

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“…(August 6, 1914) The latter diary entry was written shortly after the break in his (first) engagement to Felice. The theme of Kafka striving for textual illumination but veering towards death has been discussed by Corngold (2004) who argued that a diary entry, written eight months before Kafka met Felice, highlights Kafka's bodily experience as a writer: I have now... a great yearning to write all my anxiety entirely out of me, write it into the depths of the paper just as it comes out of the depths of me, or write it down in such a way that I could draw what I had written into me completely. (December 8, 1911) Kafka expelled the anxiety and drew it back into his body that was consumed by the text: it seemed to have the potential to exhaust or mortally damage his body.…”

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Kafka's experiencing in text: A person-centered reading of Letters to Felice.

Crisp¹

2014

The Humanistic Psychologist

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Franz Kafka's (1967/1999) Letters to Felice is instructive for the therapist/reader because it provides a first-person narrative of Kafka's immersion in a fundamentally relational-experiential process. It is argued that the underlying We of Kafka's letters implies that their correspondence expressed and constituted their relationship. Significant aspects of his experiencing are discussed from a person-centered perspective. It is argued that his experiences were initially subceived prior to awareness, in the moment, bodily felt, and process-like. The parallels that exist between the experience of reading Letters to Felice and being in a person-centered therapeutic relationship are discussed. Both endeavors are experiential and phenomenological, and from a contemporary person-centered perspective, are based upon a refinement of Carl Rogers' original formulation.

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“…But the reference to the intriguing and highly influential work of Deleuze and Guattari only serves to make such a confusion worse. This is because it keeps what one could term a flaw in their argument – the somewhat too free play with the historical circumstances of Kafka 11 – without any of the brilliance. Kafka is precisely an example of the difficulty of organizing literatures according to simple ‘national’ categories.…”

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