Högre seminariet i filosofi bjuder in till ett seminarium med Fabiana Caserta. Seminariet ges på engelska och har den engelska titeln "Falling Out of Immersion: On Derealization".
Derealization is a psychological state in which the world appears unreal, distant, or strangely unfamiliar, often occurring alongside depersonalization, a sense of detachment from oneself. Dominant interpretations treat derealization as a diminished sense of reality or presence. Yet, these accounts struggle to explain one of its most salient qualities: the felt exceptionality of the experience, the sense that something is profoundly out of the ordinary.
I develop an alternative account that understands derealization as de-immersion. I begin by introducing immersion as a two-part movement: (i) disengagement from one’s actual circumstances and (ii) engagement within an alternative experiential frame. De-immersion involves the first component without the second. I show that this structural breakdown yields the characteristic phenomenology of derealization. Finally, I argue that by locating derealization in a disruption of immersion rather than in a mere loss of sense of reality and/or presence, the account offers a more compelling explanation of its distinctive sense of exceptionality.
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