The Naked Insula: Interoceptive Collapse, Symbolic Defense, and Neuropsychoanalytic Semiotics
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 28, 2026 Jonghoon Lee
Psychoanalytic and phenomenological accounts of anxiety distinguish between raw bodily disquiet and top-down symbolic structures—morality, faith, and meaning—that subjects erect to contain it. We propose a neuropsychoanalytic model mapping this distinction onto two interacting neural registers: a bottom-up interoceptive circuit centered on the anterior insula and Salience Network (SN), and a...