Paralogic awareness is a special type of awareness frequently found in schizophrenic patients, in which the patient identifies his “awareness” with the “awareness” of another person on the basis of the fact that he is aware that both are looking at each other. Elements of it, it is suggested, are found in Sartre's notion of the “look,” a key-concept in Sartre's philosophy.
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