Consensual rather than solipsistic delusion carries the uncanny charge in our constructed realities.

Evidence

What differentiates Kant, Nietzsche and Freud from the tiresome cliché that ‘life is but a dream’ is the sense that the confabulations we live are consensual. The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 109

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to the psychoanalytic-screening-narratives argument Fisher builds across the book and to Žižek’s ideology-as-jouissance. — connects to: Consensual fictionalization of reality disturbs more than private solipsism consoles us — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 109; Lie-telling presupposes a shared reality that conspiracism rejects — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 162
• DEEPTHINKING: The distinction between consoling solipsistic delusion and disturbing consensual fiction is a genuinely dense, paradigm-shaping idea about the political stakes of how we narrate reality.

Related

• Consensual fictionalization of reality disturbs more than private solipsism consoles us (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Consensual fictionalization of reality disturbs more than private solipsism consoles us #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 109
• Lie-telling presupposes a shared reality that conspiracism rejects #expands (0.75) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 162