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There is an early moment in the development of psychosis that I find philosophically productive. It is the prodromal phase, also referred to in the literature as delusional mood). At this stage the person is not yet hallucinating or forming delusions, but they do experience that something in the world has changed, without being able to say what. Something feels off. Things are lived as strange, alien, suspicious. Jaspers described it this way: “something is happening, tell me what is happening.”

What seems to break down here is not perception or thought (which is the usual way psychosis is understood), but something more structural: the prereflective familiarity that allows us to inhabit the world without needing to deliberately reflect on how to relate to it. Normally this background remains invisible to us. But psychosis makes it perceptible by interrupting its habitual functioning.

Which raises the question:

Is this sense of familiarity part of phenomenal consciousness? Is there something it is like to inhabit the world prereflectively, a kind of existential feeling that underlies ordinary experience? Or is it a condition that operates entirely below the threshold of consciousness?

If the latter, then what fractures in psychosis was never directly experienced in the first place. It would be, rather, a hidden condition that normally makes all experience possible.