This essay aims to investigate the category of “otherness” in its moment of maximum pathology, identifying the other as a necessary enemy. I will first proceed to examine how the psychotic projection of the other-enemy becomes, in the psychological structure of socially defined subjects, constitutive of a further category, that of political paranoia, consisting in the elaboration of a delusional reproductive picture of a denied social imaginary. Secondly, I will reflect on the characteristics of two non-identical – and indeed in some ways opposite – political declinations of paranoia: the “paranoia of the sovereign” and the “paranoia of the masses”.
L’altro come nemico: profili simbolico-politici della paranoia
Ambrosio G
2022
Abstract
This essay aims to investigate the category of “otherness” in its moment of maximum pathology, identifying the other as a necessary enemy. I will first proceed to examine how the psychotic projection of the other-enemy becomes, in the psychological structure of socially defined subjects, constitutive of a further category, that of political paranoia, consisting in the elaboration of a delusional reproductive picture of a denied social imaginary. Secondly, I will reflect on the characteristics of two non-identical – and indeed in some ways opposite – political declinations of paranoia: the “paranoia of the sovereign” and the “paranoia of the masses”.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
