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The term scotomization, borrowed from ocular [[pathology]], where scotoma refers to a spot in the [[visual ]] field in which [[vision ]] is deficient or [[absent]], came into use by young psychiatrists in the 1920s to refer to a [[lack ]] of [[awareness ]] of [[others]]. René Laforgue, who refers to this origin for the term, proposed the [[notion ]] in the context of his [[thinking ]] on schizophrenics and "schizonoia" at the [[time ]] of his earliest [[work ]] in [[psychoanalysis]]. He believed it would account for his [[patients]]' misapprehension of [[reality]], and explained in a [[letter]]...