Psychoanalysis and Social Paranoia:

            A. Common Observations:

    There are several issues in psychoanalysis that hinder it from being automatically applicable to social phenomena or events. The most obvious is that in the analysis of the individual the unconscious, implicitly, changes both the content and the formation of consciousness, in different ways. In social phenomena, the unconscious becomes an instrument for creating an implicit commonality between diverse groups of individuals; it does that by explicit means and not by implicit means. In most successful social conflicts the conflict is totally clear but consciousness is expressed in innuendos. Those innuendoes could be false interpretations, applying old innuendos to the new events turning them less specidic and banal but acceptable to the public. I chose this example from so many like it because it is closer to what this post relates to. The Soviet Union, when Russia was once before, was known for blatant illegal handling of the opposition to its regime. The Western countries- for their own interest in defaming Russia's unlawful and criminal means- to resist its resistances were using those features 'not as proof of the badness of Russia' but as evidence of their better social conditions. Thus communism is bad and capitalism is good. When Russia turned around and became a capitalist country as it is now the same old hate     Russia continued. Thus, the Western World. Social hate continues. This is the nature of social phenomena that we interpret in terms of knowledge of individual phenomena, they are 'mistakenly' analytically or psychiatrically interpreted. 

                                A Russian Plane fell in the desert and one of the passengers was identified as the senior to Prigozhn. PrigosZhn, who was claimed by the best military expert and intelligence as someone who intended to invade Mosco to topple Putin with his twenty-five thousand mercenaries. Before even reaching the sight of the fallen plane all the commentators were talking about the plot against Putin,and Putin's knwn vendictive criminality. There was no mentioning that the sight of the fallen plane was not reached yet, thus every thing said was not taken as a supusitions, not even as a possibility; but were take as FACTS.

            In individual paranoia what is not evident is a morbid thought or opinion that looks for confirmation. Paranoia makes that possible despite the flimsy justifications declared. A paranoid wife would find in her husband's changing of ties evidence that he unknowingly gives of having an affair with a woman and even a specific woman the wife hates. Individual paranoia is meticulous in the way a subtle jump from an issue to a far fetched but realted assumption.

    In social paranoia, the political organization works on social masses to make them individually ready, even eager to fill the gap in the logic of the conclusions of the "pre-formulated" conclusion.d that were not only already made but paranoid. Nothing is more clear than spreading a rumor to create  mass paranoia (In one event in the sixties a rumor was spread in the Middle East- that a specific country is using gas to render women infertile so certain people would disappear and be repalce in Mass to occupy that vacacncy.) The issue is that mass paranoia does not depend on creating a convincing case, but on activating hostility based on a true wish to practically reject any thing contrary. Individual paranoia is a strange but a healing remidy to a painful suspition, while social or group paranoia is a wound peircing act to keep an almost healed narcissitic wound falre up again.

        This means that an analyst must carefully mind the temptation of using an interpretation of individual paranoia in explaining a social attitude. The causion here is not just to do a good job. It is to be ready for a better job after the one awaiting clarification. the paranoid woman need therapy, the paranoid scociety is hanging on falsitied thus is subject to continue that falsity falsity with other falsity and paranoia becomes fact and reality.

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I call the reaction to the falling Russian Plane (which is supposed to be sabotaged by Putin (to kill , his presumed enemy???), mass paranoia. A plane was carrying some shady Russian military person who died instantaneously. Before his body was extracted from the scene of the crash there were a few "Certain" accusations and interpretations about Putin planning the whole thing to get rid of that person. The issue is that neither the scene of the crash was reached, nor the unseen sight of the crash could insinuate a causative link between the accident and the people in the crash. However, just becoming a Westerner for a few moments  is not enough to make the the drop of a plane from the sky a plot. The illogic or the arguement makes it a paranoid issue.

I paranoia-as clincal practitioners in the field of mental functions-we know paranoia from the delusion that serves the interpretaion ("he looked at her and coughed because he was nervous about seeing standing next to his wife). So the place she was became to core of a delusion of conspiracy). 

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