The Seba library treats Loss Encoding in 9 passages, across 5 authors (including Hollis, James, Ogden, Pat, Siegel, Daniel J.).
Our life begins with loss. We are profoundly separated from the protective womb, disconnected from the heartbeat of the cosmos, thrust into an uncertain and often murderous world.
Hollis argues that loss is the primordial inscription written onto the psyche from the moment of birth, establishing it as the foundational template against which all subsequent losses are registered.
, Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, 1996thesis
dysregulation and dissociation, both of which interfere with encoding, accessing, and retrieving memory. Clients often experience memory gaps in which
Ogden identifies how traumatic states actively disrupt the neural encoding of experience, producing the memory gaps that characterize dissociative loss of autobiographical continuity.
, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Interventions for Trauma and, 2015thesis
shaped by implicit encoding as mental models and the states of mind in which they are embedded, as we've discussed in Chapter 2.
Siegel demonstrates that implicit encoding functions as an invisible structural filter through which all subsequent perception and behavior is organised, rendering early losses developmentally determinative.
, The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are, 2020thesis
The secret unity of attachment and loss, holding and losing, is wonderfully expressed in Rilke's poem appropriately titled 'Autumn,' that season which we in the northern hemisphere associate with the loss of summer.
Hollis draws on Rilke to encode loss as a universal rhythm—a falling held within a larger ground—thereby situating grief within an archetypal rather than merely clinical frame.
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What was oppressing Devin so profoundly, albeit unconsciously, was not the loss of his wife as much as the loss of his own self through the years of constant demands and expectations.
Hollis illustrates how loss of self, encoded unconsciously through chronic relational deprivation, operates beneath awareness and only surfaces when catalysed by more acute external loss.
, Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, 1996supporting
Through the suffering of loss, grief and betrayal we are pulled down and under, and possibly through, to a larger Weltanschauung.
Hollis contends that the downward pull of encoded loss, when consciously traversed, compels an enlargement of worldview that would be inaccessible without the descent.
, Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, 1996supporting
Holding to the meaning and letting go of control is the double work of loss and grief.
Hollis formulates the psychic task of loss as a dual movement—retaining the significance encoded by what has been lost while releasing the ego's compulsive grip on what cannot be recovered.
, Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, 1996supporting
Information, 2–3, 3 encoding, 329 feedback (IF), 3-4, 5f 52, 147-150 loss, 240, 241t misleading, 265-266 processing, 43, 45, 75, 235
This index entry from experimental psychology juxtaposes 'encoding' and 'loss' as adjacent technical categories, providing the empirical-cognitive vocabulary against which depth-psychological uses of the term implicitly position themselves.
, The Principles of Psychology, 1890aside
by increasing the contrast of a photograph or a television image one enhances the perception of objects, although one loses information in the sense of information theory.
Simondon's information-theoretic observation that perceptual clarity requires sacrificing informational completeness offers an oblique analogy for how psychic encoding necessarily involves selective loss.
, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, 2020aside