The article continues the long-standing line of research when certain mental disorders are viewed in a broad social and personal context. This vision, introduced by Freud and developed by Deleuze and Guattari, can also be extended to paranoia. Moreover, the symptoms of paranoia are very noticeable today, primarily in the big, so to speak, politics, and its specific signs are easily recognizable.

Keywords: paranoia, persecution mania, megalomania, rhetoric, ‘survival’ (Canetti)

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Schreber, D.P. (2000). Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. New York: New York Review of Books.

Received 05.11.2025

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stmm. 2025 (4): 208-214

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SERGIY TARADAJKO, Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, writer, essayist (7, Lane Rudny, Zaporizhia, 69001)

tarada@ukr.net

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