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Sep 2026

Regressive Language

Autism spectrum disorder has historically been characterized as a disability involving “language regression” ( DSM-5 43). This article purports to reclaim the derogatorily used epithet, “regressive,” to argue that autistic poetry marks a shift away from modes of fast and speedy textual consumption of texts to one t...

Sinchan Chatterjee · 0 citations
Oct 2026

Hidden signs and wrong turns: Autism, language, and the field of intersubjectivity

Autism is typically defined through observable differences in social communication, reciprocity and behaviour, while the neurotypical position from which these differences are identified often remains implicit and theoretically underexamined. This article proposes that a clearer understanding of autism requires a cor...

Nardus Saayman · 0 citations
Sep 2026

The Delusions of Paradox

Abstract:This manuscript undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation, inverting Louis Sass's noted comparison in The Paradoxes of Delusion between philosophical confusion and schizophrenic delusion. While Sass used Wittgenstein to illuminate psychopathology, we use psychopathology to clarify a strand in one of Wittge...

K. Nielsen · 0 citations
Sep 2026

The Incomplete Bergson: Memory, Minkowski, and the Foundations of Phenomenological Psychiatry.

Disturbances of temporality have long been central to phenomenological accounts of psychosis. Yet the conceptual resources used to frame these disturbances have been shaped-in specific ways-by Eugène Minkowski's selective appropriation of Henri Bergson's philosophy. This article reconstructs what was left unexplored in...

R. Sips · 0 citations
Open access Sep 2026

Reading Autistically

This research article proposes autistic modes of literary criticism, foregrounding echolalia, weak central coherence, and literal attentiveness as generative interpretive strategies rather than cognitive deficits. The argument is that autistic manifestations traditionally pathologized in medical discourse can be reconc...

Gabriel Proulx · 0 citations
Sep 2026

TIME, DECLINE, AND THE NEUROAESTHETICS OF THE SUBLIME: EMIL CIORAN, OSWALD SPENGLER, AND THE CULTURAL MORPHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

This article examines the intersection of Emil Cioran’s phenomenology of temporal decay, Oswald Spengler’s morphological theory of cultural decline, and contemporary neuroaesthetic research grounded in predictive processing and embodied cognition. While both Cioran and Spengler share an intuition of civilisational exha...

J. de Maere · 0 citations

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