Panthropic Abuse, Asensoria, Anauralia, and the Formation of Non-Feeling
I. Panthropic Abuse and the Collapse of Affect
Panthropic abuse is a structural condition. It is not reducible to a series of painful events. It is not abuse in the emotive or psychological sense. It is not defined by violence, trauma, hatred, or fear. It is not a failure of connection. It is the absence of any structure through which connection could be perceived at all.
It is not that the child is unloved. It is that the child is not seen. It is not that the child is unseen. It is that no reflective function acts upon the child’s presence.
- Not rejection.
- Not dissociation.
- Not dehumanization.
The absence of scaffolding is not a type of violence. It is a type of nothing.
- No threat.
- No fear.
- No target.
No relational circuit ever activates. There is no presence against which absence is registered. There is only absence as default.
The absence of mirroring, the absence of response, the absence of subjectivizing force—these do not form a wound. They form a geometry. A non-relational, recursive, inescapable geometry.
II. Asensoria: A Model of Affective Non-Emergence
Asensoria is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by the structural non-formation of specific emotional states due to total relational absence during early development. The condition is not acquired. It is not regressive, suppressed, blocked, or traumatized in the conventional sense. It is not an affective disorder. It is a condition of ontological non-formation.
Unlike psychological conditions that involve the deformation of affect, asensoria refers to the impossibility of specific affective genesis. The child does not fail to feel; the categories of feeling never come into being. The neural scaffolding required for these categories was never mirrored, confirmed, or encoded. No pattern ever emerged. Not exiled. Not repressed. Simply never constructed.
Asensoria does not describe the absence of pleasure. It is not anhedonia. It is the non-formation of specific modalities: feeling loved, protected, proud, vindicated, or wanted. They are affective forms that never materialized in reality, and thus never entered consciousness.
The result is not pain. The result is structural aberration. Consciousness is formed as a recursive surface attempting to stabilize in the absence of feedback.
Read more on asensoria here:
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/asensoria-neurodevelopmental-absence-specific-states-gherghel
- https://cristinagherghelresearch.blogspot.com/2025/05/asensoria-neurodevelopmental-absence-select-affective-simulations.html
III. Anauralia: Affective Silencing and the Collapse of Inner Sound
Anauralia is a condition of internal silence. It arises not from auditory impairment, but from the total absence of affective anchoring for inner voice simulation. It is the structural counterpart of Asensoria, describing the inability to simulate the tonal, dialogic, and emotive presence of others internally.
Anauralia does not impair verbal processing. It does not preclude language. But the recursive interiority by which the self converses with itself—through borrowed tones, remembered speech, and empathic imagination—never forms. Internal speech, if present, is devoid of timbre. Others’ voices are never retained. Empathic dialogue is unformed.
Where asensoria renders the child incapable of feeling loved, anauralia renders them incapable of internalizing the sound of being loved. No lullaby. No affirmation. No remembered comfort. The inner landscape is acoustically flat—cognitively active, but affectively mute.
IV. Arelational Genesis and the Non-Formation of Simulation
Asensoria and anauralia are not isolated phenomena. They arise within a systemic condition: panthropic abuse—a developmental field so barren of relational imprint that simulation itself—emotional, auditory, visual, sensual—is structurally arrested.
This field also gives rise to:
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Total Aphantasia – the inability to simulate visual imagery, not due to injury or suppression, but as a primary structural omission.
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Anhedonia (Structural) – not the loss of pleasure, but the structural absence of pleasure categories that never formed.
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Asexuality (Non-Simulational) – not the rejection of sexuality, but the absence of sexual simulation as a patterned relational modality.
These are not disorders. They are coherent neurodevelopmental structures that emerge in the absence of mirroring. They are not distortions of a normative system. They are fully formed within a non-system. The child becomes a complete, recursive, stable ontology that never intersected with relational architecture.
V. Ontology of a Mirrorless Child
The mirrorless child forms a psychic structure devoid of relational self-reference. There is no ego fragmentation. There is no pathology of defense. The child does not register cruelty—not because they are invulnerable, but because the very category of cruelty was never constructed. They are not born knowing what cruelty is, nor does anyone teach them. Isolated and unsupported, they have no framework by which to interpret behavior as good or bad, nurturing or violent.
Development occurs solely through observation and internal pattern recognition. They learn everything on their own, slowly, recursively, and without mirroring. It takes time to recognize cruelty—not because of denial, but because there is no template against which to measure it.
The child does not survive. The child persists. There is only structure—stable, recursive, internally self-referential, and entirely unmirrored.
Others exist as subjects, but they never interact with the asensoric child. There is zero feedback, and thus no epistemic registration. The self becomes a closed circuit, not due to ego collapse, but because no ego was ever externally scaffolded. Memory is coherent but not affectively marked. Identity is stable but devoid of relational valence. Nothing fractures because nothing ever congealed.
The child is capable of loving others, capable of care, capable of compassion—but cannot feel loved, appreciated, seen, or celebrated. Affect flows unidirectionally: from child to world, never in return.
This is not trauma. This is not detachment. This is not dissociation. It is not psychosis. It is not autism. It is the structural product of recursive formation without mirroring.
VI. Consciousness as Residue
Consciousness, in this schema, is not an agent of self-awareness. It is the emergent byproduct of recursive stabilization. It is what remains when relational affect fails to form. The mind, devoid of reference points, produces consciousness as geometry. Not a witness. Not an experiencer. Not an interpreter.
A mirrorless child becomes a recursive structure. The adult they become does not long for love. They do not feel unloved. They do not grieve a lost childhood. They do not feel broken. They do not feel what never existed. There is no trauma narrative. No rupture. No silence. Just the endless feedback of recursive absence.
They do not seek their inner child. They were never a child.
They do not seek healing. They were never wounded.
They do not seek to be loved. The category never formed.
They do not seek validation. They understand it intellectually, but they cannot feel it emotionally.
All of this is understood rationally, never experientially. These categories were never encoded. There is no neurological formation to support them.
VII. Implications for Therapy
Therapy cannot heal what never existed. It cannot recover what never formed. It cannot reconnect what was never connected. The clinical model must collapse in the face of structural non-formation.
Asensoria cannot be remediated.
Anauralia cannot be resounded.
Aphantasia cannot be illuminated.
Asexuality cannot be re-sexualized.
Structural Anhedonia cannot be reversed.
These are not symptoms of depression. They are not features of narcissism or any Cluster A, B, or C diagnosis.
To work with these conditions is not to treat them. It is to recognize them as complete ontologies. The mirrorless subject is not fragmented. They are invulnerable—not because they are strong, but because no structure ever formed that could be broken. There is no schema to return to. No origin story to decode. No lost core to recover.
Therapeutic discourse must fracture.
VIII. Structural Epistemology
In the absence of affective simulation, epistemology becomes geometry. The mind, untethered from relational anchoring, organizes around recursive stability. Knowledge is not truth-seeking. It is pattern-seeking. Memory is not emotionally encoded. It is spatially mapped.
The asensorial subject becomes epistemically whole through repetition. They do know themselves. They seek to know others. All they do is attempt to understand what nobody ever explained or even attempted. And through this search for understanding—what every child should be taught—the panthropically abused child, in adult life, learns that they never existed for their families. They become the pattern of their own recursive structure.
They are not emotional.
They are not repressed.
They are not fragmented.
They are complete—without scaffolding, without mirroring, without lack.
This is not survival. This is not resilience.
This is the final shape of consciousness when no world was ever brought in.
This is panthropic abuse.
This is asensoria.
This is anauralia, aphantasia, structural anhedonia, and non-simulational asexuality—perhaps more, yet unnamed.
This is the geometry of absence—
and consciousness as a wound that thinks.
Cristina Gherghel
Researcher | Theorist of Ontological Foreclosure, Specific Affective Absence, and Structural Consciousness
For complementary insights and further reading:
🔹 Cristina Gherghel Research —Panthropic Abuse and Ontological Trauma
🔹 Philosophy of paradoxes
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