Man, I feel... <i>watched</i>
If taking your picture steals your soul, writing a 128 page thesis about a group must> do something to it ;-)
Specially one with subjects like "Theoretical Excursus: the Underlying Psychological Mechanism of Individual Knowledge Transfer" and "The Knowing Subject as Autopoetic System".
Apparently the writing of such things is part of the rituals of passage into adulthood in the tribe of the humbly called "Masters of Social and Economic Sciences" ;-)