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Intrusion and Collapse: How Deferred Contact Becomes Debt in Psyche and Society

Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: Latest archived (Apr 2026)

Abstract

This paper argues that deferred contact does not disappear when a person or system avoids revision under pressure. What is not metabolized returns as debt: accumulated burden that reorganizes behavior, narrows freedom, and increases the probability of later collapse. The paper develops intrusion and collapse as linked structural phenomena across psyche and society, showing how avoided contact becomes stored pressure and how systems that refuse answerable revision become increasingly vulnerable to breakdown, compulsion, and cost export.

Keywords

intrusion; collapse; deferred contact; structural debt; psyche; society; answerability; cost export; revision; structural intelligence