Luigi Zoja

Paranoia (eBook, ePUB)

The madness that makes history

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Luigi Zoja presents an insightful analysis of the use and misuse of paranoia throughout history and in contemporary society. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317202387
• Artikelnr.: 48413415

Autorenporträt

Luigi Zoja is an analytical psychologist in private practice in Milan who lectures internationally. He is a former training analyst of the C. G. Jung Institut, Zurich, past president of CIPA (Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica) and former president of 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.

Inhaltsangabe

The madness of Ajax. 1. What is paranoia? Individual (clinical) paranoia.
2. The beginnings: myth and history. 3. European nationalism: from cultural
renaissance to paranoia. 4. Naive persecutors. 5. Darkness over Europe. 6.
Freud, Keynes and the bamboozled man. 7. Siegfried. 8. The granite
foundation and the hour of idiocy. 9. The man of steel and the final
product. 10. Fire that feeds fire. 11. Further and further west. 12. A plan
for the twenty-first century? 13. Inconclusive thoughts. Iago's whisper.
Bibliography. Index.