Unlooping the self: Ego dissolution and the collapse of recursive identity.
Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology September 11, 2025 C. H. Sawyer 1 citation
Ego dissolution—the experience of losing one’s sense of self—is reported across a range of altered states, including psychedelic intoxication, meditative absorption, traumatic dissociation, and psychotic episodes. This paper proposes a unifying framework for these phenomena by introducing the concept of unlooping: the breakdown of recursive structures that construct and maintain identity....