Persecution Mania Research Articles

ПЕРСПЕКТИВА ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЙ У ПСИХОЛОГІЇ МОСКОВИТІВ

The article substantiates the basis of a constructive approach to solving the problem of positive transformations in the psychology of the Moscovites based on processing the work of unsurpassed connoisseurs of the psychology of peoples and masses and dictators of the 19-20th centuries. It also reflects the reasons for the formation of those personality traits of Putin in his childhood and adolescence, united in the desire for power. It is shown that despite Putin’s pathologic negligence, kleptomania, and mafia-bandit mentality, signs of a paranoid form of schizophrenia are found in his activities: ideas-fixes, persecution mania, etc. Probably, he also has mental pathology, which was studied and called ‘disintegration syndrome’ by E. Fromm. They are necrophiles, meaning they love death, the dead, and destruction. Moreover, we also analysed the psychological mechanisms of the transformation of the masses into ‘cattle mass’, which succeeds under certain conditions. Such conditions were and are in Muscovy-Russia. The main one is the tendency of Moscovites to slavery. There are facts confirming that in the functioning of propensities and other components of orientation (value orientations, worldviews, etc.) as a matrix of motivational dynamics of ethno-national communities the bio-genetic factor does not play a role. The main means of formation and functioning of this matrix is tradition – the main form of representation and affirmation of society, in which it fixes basic knowledge about itself, its spiritual values, etc. Changing traditions is very difficult, but not impossible. It is capable and should be carried out by the intellectual elite of the nation and the state created by it, first of all, its part, which cherishes humanistic spiritual values – orientation to the good. The key task of this work is justified: the formation of a type of character based on independence, persistence, ingenuity, and biophilia – the love of life. The article also proposes the necessary conditions for the success of this work: 1) the awareness of the oppressed population of the regions of the Russian Federation of their self-sufficiency and their ability to dispose of the wealth of their own land; 2) the rejection of nuclear weapons and the final collapse of the Moscow Empire so that these factors do not support the illusion of greatness; 3) the philosophy and psychology of remorse for all the horrific crimes committed by the Moscow State against humanity; and 4) quality humanistic education, primarily – a truthful history.

Il simbolo della finestra nel Melkij Bes di F. Sologub

This article explores the symbolic image of the “window” in Fyodor Sologub’s novel The Petty Demon (Melky bes), with a particular focus on the connections between literature, semiotics, and psychopathology. Windows can be thought of as thin and transparent frameworks which divide the external world (“the others”) from the internal one (“the self”), but, at the same time, they allow interactions between the two as well. Peaceful interactions are seldom contemplated; in most cases, the individual ego clashes with the collectivity. This is what happens in Sologub’s Petty Demon. Here, windows represent the struggle of the novel’s anti-hero Peredonov against the world; they stand as a symbol of his alienation from Russian society and life. Windows appear several times in the novel to signify Peredonov’s troublesome relationship with other people. In particular, broken windows and glasses suggest a growing gap between “the self” and “the others”, Peredonov and reality. Imagery drawn from the visual field helps the author to describe the protagonist’s fall into madness. On one hand, Peredonov sees the world through his paranoid eyes, and considers “the others” as a threat to his own identity. Even though, on the other hand, it is Peredonov himself, who suffering from persecution mania, fears that he is spied on by enemies. At the end, alterity will triumph over him. Thus, the novel also portrays Peredonov’s tragedy: the loss of his own “self”.

Polityczne meandry emigracyjnego socjalisty. Kontakty Henryka Polowca z wywiadem PRL w latach 1952–1963

Political meanderings of emigrant socialist. Contacts of Henryk Polowiec with the Polish People’s Republic (PRL)intelligence in years 1952–1963H. Polowiec connected with socialist movement in the 30s. of the XX century. After World War II he ended up in emigration in Great Britain, where he became one of the leading activists of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). In 1954, because of criticism of the political line of the PPS he was suspended in the rights of party member. In response, he accused the authorities of PPS, that they became the agency of western intelligences, and withdraw from the party. He was also criticizing socialists for political cooperation with National Democrats in emigration. From 1952 to 1963 (with interruptions) he was also secretly contacting with PRL intelligence. For submitted orally information he received remuneration. In issued in London magazine “Tygodnik” and in political brochures he was criticizing leadership of the PPS. Considering himself as conceptual socialist he accused his former party companions of betrayal of socialism and democracy. After October 1956, fascinated by liberalization of the communist regime, he wrote with approval about W. Gomułka. In PRL intelligence estimation, Polowiec fell into persecution mania. As a result, in 1963 the communist secret service ended cooperation with him.

FRII-01 SYPHILIS’ IMPACT ON LATE WORKS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSERS

You have accessJournal of UrologyHistory of Urology II (Moderated Poster)1 Apr 2014FRII-01 SYPHILIS’ IMPACT ON LATE WORKS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSERS L. Rempelakos, E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, K. Tsiamis, and A. Rempelakos L. RempelakosL. Rempelakos More articles by this author , E. Poulakou-RebelakouE. Poulakou-Rebelakou More articles by this author , K. TsiamisK. Tsiamis More articles by this author , and A. RempelakosA. Rempelakos More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2014.02.1739AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Introduction and Objectives To present the effects of the tertiary stage syphilis on the last works of some famous European classical music composers suffering from the disease. Methods The review of the biographies of seven documented syphilis cases of composers, focusing on the events of their last period of life and the review of the critics for their artistic expression under disease-affected circumstances. Results The 19th century is undeniably considered as the golden age of classical music but, at the same time, some of the most famous composers were victims of this disease-menace, strongly stigmatizing themselves and their families, the latter trying to keep the shameful secret, aftermath destructing sources and documents. Seven cases of musicians with syphilis have been studied: Franz Schubert died at the age of 31, while Robert Schumann and Hugo Wolf (age at death 46 and 43 respectively), both attempted suicide and passed the rest of their lives in insane asylums. Moreover, Gaetano Donizetti infected his wife, Virginia, who died in childbirth before his own death occurring between catatonic symptoms and bouts of persecution mania. Bedrich Smetana predicted his death entitling his composition “final page” and indeed, he did not compose anymore and died soon in a mental asylum. Frederick Delius lived for fifteen years blind and paralyzed dictating his scores to a young follower of his music, although the quality of the late compositions cannot be compared with the priors. Finally, Niccolò Paganini, who did not appear with mental decline, lost his voice, probably as a secondary effect of mercury treatment. Conclusions Syphilis has been a fatal disease through ages and among its victims, authors and artists died with symptoms of mental deterioration due to neurosyphilis. The influence of the disease upon their last works can be traced especially in the case of composers, as hallucinations and horrors and psychological conflicts are reflected in their music. © 2014FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 191Issue 4SApril 2014Page: e627 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2014MetricsAuthor Information L. Rempelakos More articles by this author E. Poulakou-Rebelakou More articles by this author K. Tsiamis More articles by this author A. Rempelakos More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...

Introduction: A special section on Chester Himes

Let it first be stated, writes Chester Himes in an early essay for September 1942 issue of Opportunity, that character of this writer is vulnerable, open to attack, easy to be smeared; that strength of this writer is questionable, his person inconsequential, insignificant; that name of this writer will soon be forgotten (Now is Time! 271). Whereas essays included in this special section of A frican A merican R eview testify to inaccuracy of Himes's claim to insignificance and erasure, it is worth noting remarkable consistency with which Himes made such claims throughout his literary career. As his essays, editorial correspondence, fictional works, and autobiographical writings alike attest, Himes was indeed both vulnerable and prone to attack. His writing was marginalized and even smeared as much as it was praised; his personal conduct was also often subject to question. Born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1909, Himes began writing during Depression as a prisoner in Ohio State Penitentiary. His first short stories appeared in a number of African American magazines such as Abbott's Monthly and Atlanta Daily World; in 1934, he started publishing in mainstream magazines such as Crisis and Esquire, where his stories first appeared under his prison number, 59623. Arrested in 1928 after an ill-fated attempt at armed robbery, Himes had spent eight years in prison, a period documented in his semi-autobiographical novel Cast First Stone (1952), as well as in first volume of his autobiography, The Quality of Hurt (1972). Our point is not to suggest, however, that Himes's career as a writer was animated by either personal grievance or persecution mania or, for that matter, by anti-social intentions. Rather, as Himes contends in his 1942 Opportunity essay, writer is questionable, inconstant, and even insignificant because it is not his voice that speaks. The writer, Himes explains, is only an instrument; voice that speaks through Himes's writing is not that of author but instead the voice of Negro heroes, dead on American fronts throughout all American history; voice of Negro martyrs, dead, hung from American trees; voice of centuries of Negro oppression in unmarked graves of Negro slaves who prayed to God for freedom from birth to death; voice of centuries of contained waiting, repressed hoping, stained with tears of bitterness that saw death before light; voice that comes out of a bruised and beaten past, out of a confused and shadowed present, an obscure future--like a clarion it comes, loud, clear, positive (Now is Time! 271). Written at height of U. S. engagement in World War II, Himes's 1942 essay aims most immediately to recognize urgency of fighting fascism and intolerance at home as well as abroad. As Justus Nieland discusses in his essay for this special section, Himes radicalizes rhetoric of democratic universalism brandished by Allied campaign in order to redress the brutal realities of racism, both domestically and in practices of colonialism that Allied nations continued to engage in around world (Nieland 283). Himes's writing, in other words, articulates historical demand of a collective black American voice in face of a universalism that threatened yet again to obscure it. No less significant to Himes's writing and thought, though, is inherent multiplicity of this voice itself. In spite of loudness and clarity of its call, voice for which Himes considers his writing a conduit resounds with an historical depth and affective range whose contradictions and violent paradoxes Himes would explore throughout his career, from psychosexual conflicts of his early fiction, to grotesqueries of his Harlem domestic cycle of crime novels in 1950s and '60s, to quality of hurt thematized in his late autobiographical writing. In its catalogue of rage, reactionary fear, violent sexuality, frustrated ambitions, and revolutionary longing, Himes's writing charts not only an archive of black historical experience in America, but also a diagnosis of persistent crises of racism and intolerance U. …

Infanticide en post-partum : à propos d’un cas

Infanticide is an extremely traumatic criminal act, which has psychopathologic repercussions and severe sociofamilial consequences. It is marked by its plurality of forms, the variety of its aspects and the frequency of its hidden cases. Circumstances and modes of completion of the infanticide act are variable according to the nature of the author and the sociocultural context. Infanticide is often situated within the framework of an acute and a chronic structured psychiatric pathology (puerperal psychosis, maniacodepressive psychosis, schizophrenia, epilepsy, substance abuse, etc.). Sometimes, it is connected to sociocultural constraints and confusions of adaptation of the postpartum stage. The psychopathologic justifications evoke a profound dysfunction of the mother-child interactions, fears of division and the infantile and regressive characteristics of the mother. The medicolegal issue of responsibility of the author of infanticide is complex. Treatment depends on the mental pathology of the author; psychotherapeutic efforts are required in parallel with pharmacological treatment. The role of psychiatrists in preventing the act of infanticide is crucial. This consists in detecting the populations at risk, identifying the psychiatric complications of the postpartum stage and ensuring an adequate coordination of the maternity team and the social services. The infanticide acts reported in the literature are situated in diverse contexts and are motivated by various circumstances. We report a case of a young woman without any personal or family psychiatric history; she is married and has a stable matrimonial life. She was hospitalised following a suicide attempt and subsequently killed her child by strangulation; this occurred ten days after giving birth. The murder took place during a first psychotic episode that arose brutally one week after delivery and essentially included persecution mania, inconsistent comments, auditive hallucinations, indifference and emotional coolness. This symptomatology lasted four months and totally regressed with antipsychotics. The diagnosis of a puerperal psychosis was evoked at first, having eliminated major melancholic depression and any organic affection. The illustration of our clinical case shows to what extent the role of the psychiatrist is essential in preventing and ensuring the therapeutic stage of such psychiatric disorders arising during the postpartum stage, which would complicate infanticide acts at any time.

Richard Wagners Das Judentum in der Musik: Eine kritische Dokumentation als Beitrag zur Geschichte Antisemitismus (review)

Frankfurt a.M.: Insel Verlag, 2000. 380 pp. DM 19.90. Richard Wagner's antisemitism is undeniable, even though many of those who admire and love his music would prefer to hide or hush up this fact. Is this antisemitism understandable in psychological terms? According to Otto Weiniger's Geschlecht und Charakter (1903), hate like love is a form of projection: Whoever hates Jewish nature hates it first of all in himself; he persecutes it in others primarily in an effort to disconnect himself from this Jewishness. In this way, for at least a while, by locating it in another human being, he believes he is free of it. According to Weiniger, this projection applies in no small measure to Wagner. It turns out that Wagner's contemporaries accused him -- particularly through caricature and satire -- of a putative racial (blutmassiges) or spiritual closeness to Jewishness. Through his Jew-hatred Wagner thus tried to ward off these accusations. Gustav Freytag in his work Der Streit um das Judentum in der Musik (1869) maintains that if one examines inner meaning of Wagner's pamphlet -- Das Judentum in der Musik -- in period from 1850 through 1869, he himself comes across as the biggest Jew. From a critical viewpoint Freytag's work is quite opposed to Wagner and far removed from any tinge of It is one of many contemporary documents -- most of which are not easily accessible -- now reprinted in Jens Malte Fischer's collection. Fischer's aim is to make a contribution to history of antisemitism. In a comprehensive and down-to-earth fashion he examines first of all sources of pamphlet. In 1850, spurred on by friend Theodor Uhlig, Wagner started a campaign directed against Meyerbeer, one which reflected current controversies. Fischer considers this an early antisemitic phase, one that still excluded a fully formed racial premise in its arguments, but one ready to utilize commonly held perceptions of Jewishness. Fischer judges anonymous first edition of Wagner's pamphlet with a notable mildness, especially because he only utilizes arguments that were widespread through political spectrum of his time. The actual fall (into racial antisemitism) Fischer notes first in Wagner's persecution mania and conspiracy phobia that characterized second edition of his anti-Jewish polemic. In 1869 this piece burst maliciously into a situation where development of Jews in Germany had been relatively peaceful. In contrast to almost ineffectual first edition, this one had disastrous consequences. …

Alyse Gregory, Scofield Thayer, and the Dial

Research Article| December 01 2002 Alyse Gregory, Scofield Thayer, and the Dial Barbara Ozieblo Barbara Ozieblo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 487–507. https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2002-1002 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Ozieblo; Alyse Gregory, Scofield Thayer, and the Dial. Twentieth-Century Literature 1 December 2002; 48 (4): 487–507. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-2002-1002 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsTwentieth-Century Literature Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © Hofstra University2002 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Articles You do not currently have access to this content.

CASE REPORT Psychosis in a methadone‐substituted patient during interferon‐alpha treatment of hepatitis C

Interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) is the only effective treatment for chronic hepatitis B and C. Over 2/3 of methadone-substituted patients suffer from chronic hepatitis C but a history of psychiatric disorders or drug addiction is still seen as a contraindication for IFN-alpha because of a possible increased risk of severe psychiatric side effects such as depression, suicide attempts or psychotic episodes. We report on the case of a 33-year-old patient with chronic hepatitis C and a positive psychiatric history (drug abuse, borderline personality and four suicide attempts). After 4 months of therapy with IFN-alpha he developed a psychosis with persecution mania, complex thought disorder, disturbance of sexual identity, sleeplessness, anxiety, depression and increased irritability with suicidal thoughts. Symptoms did not disappear after discontinuation of interferon treatment. To our knowledge, there are no other reports of persistent psychosis with a possible association to interferon treatment. Development of psychosis and other psychiatric side-effects may be an indication of possible neuromodulatory effects of IFN-alpha with long-term treatment. On the other hand, the treatment for hepatitis C was successful. Ideas for safer treatment in methadone patients with psychiatric co-morbidity and chronic hepatitis C are needed.

Les véritables auteurs de la Révolution française de 1789 démasqués. Discours de persécution et crimes d'indifférenciation chez F.N. Sourdat de Troyes

Les véritables auteurs de la Révolution de France de 1789. Persecution mania and the crime of undifferenciation. To understand how the monarchical order had collapsed into revolutionary chaos and to give this meaningless event a meaning, F. N. Sourdat de Troyes's Les véritables auteurs de la Révolution de France de 1 789 falls back on conspiracy theory. He elaborates an illogical but well-constructed scenario based on the crime of lack of differenciation, fomented by the "foreign Protestant Freemason philosopher who denies French Catholic identity" from his lair in Nîmes. This case study tries to test out the explanatory value of René Girard' s keys for the reading of persecution mania (in Le bouc émissaire ) when applied to counter-revolutionary writings. It brings out the dangerous efficiency of the counter-revolutionary reading of the crisis of 1789 and its effect on 19th and 20th century minds, for which it had to be regularly brought up to date.

Logic and Reality

0.1 Logic, in particular the modern symbolic logic, is not accused of being deficient in precision and accuracy, but one does sometimes hear that it is unrealistic, that it cannot be applied to reality,1 that it is Utopian. 0.2 In this article we cannot and it is not our intention to give an exact definition of what Reality is; in order to indicate what we understand by this terminology, let us say that it stands for the quintessence of everything that can either exert or sustain an effect, either physical, chemical, astronomical, biological or psychical. 0.3 But what does Utopia or Utopian mean? 0.31 This word Utopia, which was minted by Thomas More2 (1478-1535), means literally place and was used by More himself in his work with the same name (1516) for an ideal state and social system, which has never been realized. This meaning can be transferred to other systems which also have not yet been put into practice. 0.32 In the course of time, the word 'Utopia', and in particular the ad jective 'utopian', was given an evaluative character; it came to mean a system which contains elements which are so much in contrast to the facts of reality that the system itself cannot be put into practice. 0.33 In popular exaggeration the word utopian is synonymous with 'unrealistic', 'unworldly', 'dreamy', 'eccentric', 'incredible', 'insane'. 1.1 If we begin with the last meaning, there is no doubt that there have been important logicians who, especially in their later years, could be called utopian in the sense of 0.33. The most outstanding logician of the last century, Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), became in the later years of his life an eccentric, who shut himself away more and more from the world and busied himself with crack-brain ideas; for example, the theory of money shrinkage. The most outstanding American logician, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), suffered a similar fate. He became a screwball, who either wore a mask or hid in an attic to escape from his creditors. Georg Cantor (1845-1918) who developed the Set-Theory to an in dependent mathematical discipline, was for a time in psychiatrical treat ment. Walter Dubislav (1895-1937) to whom we owe, among other things, the standard work on Definition, committed suicide during an attack of persecution mania. Emil Leon Post (1897-1954), who created the n-valued logic in 1920, was afflicted with recurring attacks of schizophrenia. And these examples can be multiplied.

Franz Kafka's “The Burrow” (“Der Bau”): An Analytical Essay

Previous commentaries have emphasized the correlation between this piece and the host of motifs and problems that Franz Kafka never tired of treating. While this method seems mandatory in an overall account and has led to stimulating insights as well as aberrations on various levels of symbolic interpretation, a close analysis of “The Burrow” on the primary level, granting the given data of its non-Euclidean geometry, is attempted for the first time. Outstanding features include a demonstration of the unique quality of the recital as the synchronous coexistence of a ninety-minute monologue in the form of an emergent or progressive present with a life span of many years extending from maturity to senility. The progressive derangement and deterioration of the hero are analyzed, and his persecution mania is correlated with manifestations of a repressed, abnormal libido that allows inferences regarding a traumatic experience of his youth. Finally, it is shown on inner grounds of both a formal and a material nature that the piece is complete, allowing of no meaningful continuation.