Paranoia: The Madness That Makes History

Author(s) : Luigi Zoja

Paranoia: The Madness That Makes History

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Luigi Zoja presents an insightful analysis of the use and misuse of paranoia throughout history and in contemporary society. Zoja combines history with depth psychology, contemporary politics and tragic literature, resulting in a clear and balanced analysis presented with rare clarity. The devastating impact of paranoia on societies is explored in detail.

Focusing on the contagious aspects of paranoia and its infectious, self-replicating dynamics, Zoja takes such diverse examples as Ajax and Othello, Cain and the American Holocaust, Hitler, Stalin and George W. Bush to illustrate his argument. He reconstructs the emblematic arguments that paranoia has promoted in Western history and examines how the power of the modern media and mass communication has affected how it spreads.

Paranoia clearly examines how leaders lose control of their influence, how the collective unconscious acquires an autonomous life and how seductive its effects can be - more so than any political, religious or ideological discourse. This gripping study will be essential reading for depth and analytical psychologists and academics and students of history, cultural studies, psychology, classical studies, literary studies, anthropology and sociology.

About the Author(s)

Dr Luigi Zoja trained as an analyst at Zurich's C.G. Jung Institut, and now practices in Milan. He was president of the Italian Center for Analytical Psychology from 1984 to 1993, and in 1999 served as president of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP).

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