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« Même les paranoïaques ont des ennemis », aurait répondu Golda Meir à Henry Kissinger en 1973. Le secrétaire d'État américain avait accusé l'excès de prudence dont faisait preuve le chef du gouvernement israélien lors des négociations territoriales avec l'Égypte. L'histoire nous rappelle ainsi que la paranoïa est, aussi, un problème de frontières : où s'arrête le sain discernement des dangers qui nous menacent et où commence le délire ? Quand le gentil parano devient-il un dangereux paranoïaque ? La paranoïa est-elle une activité délirante ou plutôt une « activité désirante », propre à inspirer les plus grands - Rousseau, Strindberg, Céline ou encore Artaud ? La difficulté se corse encore lorsque, de l'individu, on s'intéresse à la société. Big Brother est-il un fantasme de parano, ou la forme prise par un pouvoir d'essence paranoïaque ? La multiplication des procès en harcèlement (sexuel, moral...) reflète-t-elle une attention plus grande portée aux victimes ou résulte-t-elle de rapports humains toujours plus paranoïaques ? En compagnie de grandes figures littéraires, nous avons voulu éclairer quelques aspects de notre « société parano ».

Paranoia in literature

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Oscillations of Literary Theory offers a new psychoanalytic approach to reading literature queerly, one that implicates queer theory without depending on explicit representations of sex or queer identities. By focusing on desire and identifications, A. C. Facundo argues that readers can enjoy the text through a variety of rhythms between two (eroticized) positions: the paranoid imperative and queer reparative. Facundo examines the metaphor of rupture as central to the logic of critique, particularly the project to undo conventional formations of identity and power. To show how readers can rebuild their relational worlds after the rupture, Facundo looks to the themes of the desire for omniscience, the queer pleasure of the text, loss and letting go, and the vanishing points that structure thinking. Analyses of Nabokov's Lolita, Danielewski's House of Leaves, Findley's The Wars, and Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go are included, which model this new approach to reading.

Literature, Modern --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Paranoia in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism.

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Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.

American fiction --- Conspiracies in literature. --- Psychological fiction, American --- Literature and history --- Paranoia in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic"-an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear-including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory-Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory.Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber Manifesto, from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addiction discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy of freedom from social control.

Paranoia in literature. --- Social problems in literature. --- Paranoia --- Political fiction, American --- Conspiracies --- Politics and literature --- Conspiracies in literature. --- American fiction --- Psychology, Pathological --- Psychoses --- History --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Civilization

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"Contemporary Russia stands apart as one of the most prolific generators of conspiracy theories and paranoid rhetoric. Conspiracy Culture traces the roots of the phenomenon within the sphere of culture and history, examining the long arc of Russian paranoia from the present moment back to earlier nineteenth-century sources, such as Dostoevsky's anti-nihilist novel Demons. Conspiracy Culture examines the use of conspiracy tropes by contemporary Russian authors and filmmakers including the postmodernist writer Viktor Pelevin, the conservative author and pundit Aleksandr Prokhanov, and the popular director Timur Bekmambetov. It also explores paranoia as an instrument within contemporary Russian political rhetoric, as well as in Russian pseudo-historical works. What stands out is the manner in which Russian popular paranoia is utilized to express broadly shared fears not only of a long-standing anti-Russian conspiracy undertaken by the West, but also about the destruction of the country's cultural and spiritual capital within this imagined "Russophobic" plot."--

Conspiracies in literature. --- Conspiracies in literature. --- Conspiracies in popular culture --- Conspiracies in popular culture. --- Conspiration dans la culture populaire --- Conspiration dans la littérature. --- Paranoia in literature. --- Paranoia in literature. --- Paranoia in popular culture --- Paranoia in popular culture. --- Paranoïa dans la culture populaire --- Paranoïa dans la littérature. --- Roman russe --- Russian fiction --- Russian fiction. --- History --- Histoire --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism --- 1900-1999. --- Russia (Federation).