Paranoia

When faced with such a paranoid construction, we must not forget Freud's warning and mistake it for the "illness" itself: the paranoid construction is, on the contrary, an attempt to heal ourselves, to pull overselves out of the real "illness," the "end of the world," the breakdown of the symbolic universe, by means of this substitute formation.[Zizek, An Introduction to Lacan Through Popular Culture. 1991]
Recent news about the expansive reach of the NSA is enough to make anyone a little paranoid. For those with paranoia in the clinical sense, however, the overwhelming suspicion that “someone is watching” is old news [Shure 13]"When Spying Is Cheap and Easy, Paranoia Is the New Normal"
E.g. paranoia about Intelligence Agencies; Paranoia about AI.
== Rhizomata ==
Doomerism
Nazi paranoia
End-of-Civilization Paranoia; End-of-the-World Paranoia
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