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A Facebook note on issues of free speech and social anxiety.
Dans l'introduction de son ouvrage "L'Âge des ombres. Complots, conspirations et sociétés secrètes" au XIXe siècle, Jean-Noël Tardy constate que le XIXe siècle est la période la plus riche en complots de toute l'histoire française. Des... more
This essay compares Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" and Don DeLillo's "Underworld," by tracking the evolution of paranoia as a cultural pathology typical of the U.S.A. during the second half of the Twentieth century. By... more
Cet article se propose d'esquisser une métapsychologie de la psychose en se focalisant uniquement sur la description des processus psychiques qui sont caractéristiques de chaque pathologie, ce qui permet de dégager leur logique propre, et... more
The paper begins by analyzing the category of paranoia, evaluating it not simply from a pathological point of view (a Freudian one) and relating it instead to the one Patrick O'Donnell has called cultural paranoia: an interpretative... more
If we talk about the typology of personality, according to "Psychoanalytic Diagnostics" Nancy McWilliams, she identifies several leading types. In this article, consider the paranoid personality type. The article is based on the principle... more
The term paranoia, taken up by Freud and Lacan, comes from the discourse of the psychiatric clinic. If we do not have a matheme of it, we have a formula, a saying from Lacan that he pronounced during a presentation of patients — paranoia... more
The paper aims to reconsider the psychoanalytic concept of paranoia so as to apply it to a particular mass case of this disorder responsible for the symbolic construction of “Poland” and “Polish identity” – as exemplified in a 2014’s... more
An article written for educational screen studies magazine Screen Education. This article investigates the narrative devices implemented by Polanski in his film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1971), with particular focus on the... more
[This book explains how to acquire a psychiatric illness. There are thousands of books on the market offering a variety of treatments, and laying down the rules for healthy living; however, they have all proved ineffective. This work,... more
Etwas am Wort Weltanschauung ist bekenntnishaft, es transportiert einen suggestiven Mehrwert, der nicht leicht zu erfassen ist. Adorno konstatiert in der Philosophischen Terminologie, dass es häufig mit einem Possessivpronomen versehen... more
What dark side characteristics do you have? How can you use them to get ahead? How can they hurt you? This presentation will help you to learn more about the dark side of personality, in particular the Dark Triad of narcissism,... more
The1964 play Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss easily lends itself to a psychoanalytic reading. The lead character called Marat is a paranoiac. The director of the play in this play-within-a-play is Sade, the notorious eighteenth century Marquis... more
The present MA thesis focuses on the function of paranoia found in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Pynchon's novel is routinely considered one of the finest pieces of American fiction to emerge after World War II and no discussion of... more
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a collective paranoia which is not only driven by our psychic anxiety but also mirrors the irrationality of the crisis and the failure of global governance. During such catastrophic times, in which the... more
The Poetics of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature revisits the great American post-WWII, postmodern literary texts, namely Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-5 (1969), and Joseph... more
The communitarian paranoia generated by circumcision does not only affect fundamentalists and terrorists, it also rages with intellectuals and even psychoanalysts.
This article examines the 2015 film Ex Machina as a cultural text that exemplifies the technologization of gender within algorithmic culture. Analysing different textual elementsthe narrative diegesis, the marketing material, and the... more
La visione del film “L’inquilino del terzo piano” può essere considerata una vera è propria esperienza all’interno del mondo paranoideo. Per buona parte del film qualsiasi spettatore non può fare altro che condividere con il protagonista... more
Los críticos han destacado una serie de temas en la narrativa sabatiana: la descripción crítica histórica y social, los temas psicoanalíticos, los filosóficos (el existencialismo, el problema del mal y, en general, del hombre), la... more
Resumen: Descritos los síntomas y signos percibidos en el personaje de Aurora Rodríguez, relacionaremos el diagnóstico y hechos acaecidos con la imputabilidad del caso según el marco legal de la misma.
Und hier nun das Buch als Open Access!
English: How are the movie screen and the emotions of the audience linked? And how can we write a history of this connection? This monograph tries to answer these questions by conceptualizing the film historical period of the New... more
In The Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon transposes the Oedipus myth from tragedy to comedy by changing the gender and developmental model of the Oedipus figure. Pynchon disavowed the novel as a failed experiment that documents his own... more
Artigo de Salvador Dalí publicado na revista "Surrealisme au Service de la Révolution", em julho de 1930.
Close relation between paranoia and depression has been assumed by some theorists and supported by some research. Also, it has been proposed that self-esteem is important in this relation. The aim of this study was to explore differences... more
In 1966, in a paper on those who have influenced his work, Jacques Lacan suggested that his concept of ‘paranoid knowledge’ and his structural approach to psychoanalysis were closely linked to the work of Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault.... more
In questo elaborato viene analizzato in chiave fenomenologica-psicodinamica l’episodio “The Entire History of You” del telefilm Black Mirror di Charlie Brooker, con l’obbiettivo di tratteggiare un quadro generale rispetto le fonti di... more
This project identifies narrative intersections between first-generation Romantic literature and twentieth and twenty-first century graphic novels. Specifically, I comparatively read the nineteenth-century imaginative poesis with... more