paranoia
paranoia, paranoid reactionsIn psychoanalysis, paranoia involves the projection of internal threatening feelings on to the external world, which is then experienced as persecutory. Psychoanalysts concerned with society are interested in the way paranoid reactions can be mobilized for political purposes (see for example T. Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality, 1950).
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