{"id":25588,"date":"2024-07-22T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cgjung.net\/espace\/?page_id=25588"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T11:30:57","slug":"paranoia-madness-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cgjung.net\/espace\/jps\/books-resources\/paranoia-madness-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranoia: The Madness that Makes History – Luigi Zoja"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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French version of this book presentation<\/a><\/p>\n

This book also exists in hardcover edition<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also read the piece <\/em>Paranoia or lucid madness<\/a> <\/em><\/span>centered around this book.<\/em><\/p>\n

Focusing on the contagious aspects of paranoia and its infectious, self-replicating dynamics, Zoja takes such diverse examples as Ajax and George W. Bush, Cain and the American Holocaust, Hitler, Stalin and Othello to illustrate his argument.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Paranoia<\/em> clearly examines how leaders lose control of their influence, how the collective unconscious acquires an autonomous life and how seductive its effects can be \u2013 more so than any political, religious or ideological discourse.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

[Publisher’s presentation]\n

Table of contents<\/h2>\n

Introduction: The Madness of Ajax.<\/p>\n

1. What is Paranoia?<\/strong>
\nIndividual (clinical) paranoia
\nCollective (historico-cultural) paranoia<\/p>\n

2. The Beginnings: Myth and History<\/strong>
\nCain’s envy
\nThe enemy in the Aeneid
\nThe development of the relationship between paranoia and politics
\nColumbus’s delusion
\nA voice crying in the wilderness: Brother Antonio Montesinos
\nThe cross and interest
\nParanoid law<\/p>\n

3. European Nationalism: From cultural renaissance to paranoia<\/strong>
\nSupervising and mistrusting
\nThe pride and suspicion of nations
\nThe fantasies underlying national law
\nThe imaginary race
\nThe place of the Jews
\nThe Dreyfus Affair<\/p>\n

4. Naive Persecutors<\/strong>
\nThe special nature of America
\nThe Black Legend
\nThe empty continent
\n‘American exceptionalism’
\nMoby Dick
\nFounding principles and purity
\nThe separation of the continents and manifest destiny
\nWar of conquest
\nSpain and Catholicism
\nThe ‘newspaper war’
\nThe United States lands in Asia
\nThe white men’s burden<\/p>\n

5. Darkness over Europe<\/strong>
\nGreat is war
\nBoredom and waiting
\nPandarus’ arrow and first casualty
\nSuspicion grows
\nPre-emptive mobilization
\nDo railway timetables determine the intercontinental dimension
\nThe silence after the gunfire<\/p>\n

6. Freud, Keynes and the Bamboozled Man<\/strong>
\nAn American messiah
\nThe fourteen-point dogma
\nThe peace negotiations
\nWilson’s self-deceptions
\nThe paranoid atmosphere of the negotiations
\nThe offence
\nArrogance
\nThe seeds of new paranoia<\/p>\n

7. Siegfried<\/strong>
\nThe illuminating explanation
\nThe legitimization of paranoid nationalist ‘law’
\nThe disappearance of multinational coexistence
\nThe stab in the back
\nWaiting for more darkness<\/p>\n

8. The Granite Foundation and the Hour of Idiocy<\/strong>
\nHitler’s revelations
\nThe role of Vienna
\nMein Kampf<\/em>
\nThe apparition of the Jew
\nOther ‘logical’ steps in Mein Kampf<\/em>
\nFrom theoretician to head of state
\nImpatience prevails
\nThe choices of death
\nAll obstacles are swept away
\n‘Who talks about the massacre of Armenians today?’
\nWar at last
\nDefinitive omnipotence
\nAbsurd calculations
\nSelf-burial
\nThe need of an enemy
\nDelusion to the end
\n‘Total war’
\nThe final revelation and the abyss
\nThe shadow of Nero<\/p>\n

9. The Man of Steel and the Final Product<\/strong>
\nStalin: a name with many meanings
\nCharacter
\nRadical mistrust
\nAllusion and the creation of  a self-contained reality
\nLenin’s heritage
\nThe gulag
\nYakov and Nadya
\nThe diagnosis of paranoia
\nSome daily habits
\nSimilarities and differences with respect to Hitler
\n‘Inversion of causes’: the leader’s mind as the origin of society
\nThe massacres
\nThe twentieth-anniversary speech
\nThe ‘denationalizations’ and the ideology that lay behind them
\nUnpreparedness for war
\nCounter-attack and the conclusion of the conflict
\nSuspicion hits the Jews
\nStalin’s death
\nThe paradoxes of paranoid totalitarianism
\nFinal questions<\/p>\n

10. Fire That Feeds Fire<\/strong>
\nWar crimes and Allied double standards
\nCollective paranoia and forms of government
\nAirborne warfare as total war
\nPoetry and romantic enthusiasm in the air war
\nThe first bombs of the Second World War
\nThe three phases of Allied bombing
\nDouhet’s predictions are proved wrong
\nThe bombing of Germany
\nThe bombing of Italy<\/p>\n

11. Further and Further West<\/strong>
\nWar against an inferior race
\nWar between different races, total war
\nThe erroneous calculation of pre-emptive attack
\nThe impossibility of isolation
\nFear of encirclement
\nA strategy founded on haste
\nSuspicion and the missed opportunity
\nTowards the atomic bomb
\nContagious fanaticism
\nThe range of options continues to narrow
\nHiroshima
\nThe diary of Michihiko Hachiya
\nThe withdrawal of projections and meeting the enemy
\nMore elation
\nNagasaki
\nRationalizations
\nSecrecy
\nLater justifications
\nThe Tokyo Trials
\nThe reawakening of Ajax
\nDr Hachiya’s farewell<\/p>\n

12. A Plan for the Twenty-first Century?<\/strong>
\nParanoia and the new century
\nThe Cold War
\nThe disappearance of the Soviet enemy
\nThe appearance of the Islamic enemy
\nParanoia takes the form of a government document
\nThe war caused by suspicion
\nThe responsibility of those who disseminate paranoid messages
\nThe contagiousness of paranoia
\nThe impact on civilian life<\/p>\n

13. Inconclusive Thoughts<\/strong>
\nUnderstanding evil
\nParanoia and psychopathy again
\nIndividual, mass and leader
\nThree generations of mass media
\n‘The Giant’
\nDictators
\nGiving back medals<\/p>\n

14. Iago\u2019s Whisper<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bibliography.<\/p>\n

Translated from Italian by Jonathan Hunt.<\/i><\/p>\n

Publisher: Routledge \u2013 2017 \u2013 358 pages \u2013 ISBN 9781138673663 \u2013 15,6 x 23,39 x 2,06 cm<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>Hardcover edition<\/h2>\n

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Publisher: Routledge \u2013 2017 \u2013 358 pages \u2013 ISBN 9781138673540 \u2013 15,6 x 23,39 x 2,54 cm<\/em><\/p>\n

Luigi Zoja<\/h2>\n

Luigi Zoja<\/span> is an analytical psychologist in private practice in Milan who lectures internationally. He is a former training analyst of the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich, past president of CIPA (Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica) and former president of the IAAP (International Association of Analytical Psychology). He has taught at the University of Insubria and at Beijing Normal University, and his previous books have been published in multiple languages.<\/p>\n

Presentation of Luigi Zoja’s books on this site<\/strong><\/p>\n