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On stalled time — there’s actual intellectual substance here across a few traditions: Phenomenological psychiatry: Eugène Minkowski’s Lived Time (1933) is the sharpest source. He distinguishes temps stagnant — stagnant time, where the person is cut off from the forward pull of lived duration — from healthy temporal flow. He was working with schizophrenic patients but the structural description maps much wider. The key insight: stagnant time isn’t the absence of experience, it’s experience that can’t metabolize into becoming. ...