In particular, when volunteers report the experience of ego dissolution, their brain imaging shows a precipitous drop in D.M.N. activity.
They are experiences of disintegration or dissolution of the ego without reorganization, but also of its rabid fortification.
And at the same time they reported experiences of "ego dissolution" very much like those we experienced in the park.
To read his stories is to experience the dissolution of all certainty, all assumption about the reliability of your experience of the world.
It is expected that offspring from unstable families, offspring who experience more transitions, and offspring who experience the dissolution of their mothers' marital and cohabiting relationships will enter unions at younger ages and be more likely to enter into informal unions.
Clearly, the experience of loss and final dissolution of a relationship involves a more difficult elaboration for men, who seem to harbour a very strong brooding resentment, ready to discharge the accumulated tension.
In giving this prize, the Nobel committee emphasized the eloquence with which Alexievich created a portrait of a country experiencing the dissolution of Communism in the 1990s, which plunged Russia into existential crisis.
The speaker of "Wind and Mist" experiences the dissolution of "reality" (mist), then possession by another reality: "There were whole days and nights when the wind and I / Between us shared the world, and the wind ruled".
Where Death in Venice's Aschenbach is undone by the eroticising of freedom and death – Mann's vision of passion being a descent into confusion and degradation – the hero of this brave and rigorous novel ultimately experiences the dissolution of personality as a great letting of light into the self's constricted space.
A young woman starving herself to fill society's expectations of her is very different than me experiencing the dissolution of my marriage as trauma.
The brutality of the time, as well as his experiences in Dissolution, have made him a less certain man of faith.
