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On paranoia

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: (Eranos lectures: 8)Dallas, TX Spring Publications c1986Edition: 1st Spring Publication printing 1988Description: 56pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-88214-408-1
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Contents:
Psychiatry and paranoia. Three cases. Freud and Jung. Revelation and delusion. Revelation and the hidden. The politics of paranoia
Abstract: 'How can we distinguish religious revelation from pathological delusion, since both are attempts to adjust to the unseen order? Hillman studies three cases in careful detail....[and] presents avenues for loosening the unavoidable component of paranoia in all revelatory religion (and the visionary aspect of all paranoia) both in personal life and in the rigidly dangerous attitudes dominating world politics.'
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'...presented originally at the 1985 Eranos Conference in Ascona, Switzerland, and appeared in the Eranos Yearbook 54-1985, pp. 269-324.'

Psychiatry and paranoia. Three cases. Freud and Jung. Revelation and delusion. Revelation and the hidden. The politics of paranoia

'How can we distinguish religious revelation from pathological delusion, since both are attempts to adjust to the unseen order? Hillman studies three cases in careful detail....[and] presents avenues for loosening the unavoidable component of paranoia in all revelatory religion (and the visionary aspect of all paranoia) both in personal life and in the rigidly dangerous attitudes dominating world politics.'

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