LIMA, Raul Alves Barreto    WAHBA, Liliana Liviano. The contamination of paranoia: collective illnesses and dystopic literature. Junguiana []. 2025, 43, e05.   25--2025. ISSN 2595-1297.  https://doi.org/10.70435/junguiana.v43.285.

This article aims to reflect on paranoia using examples magnificently portrayed in the imagination of dystopian literature and cinema. Considerations are made about paranoid disorder in dynamic psychiatry and the phenomena of mass culture and its contemporary manifestations. Technologically dependent society and its utilitarian leveling is one of the focuses. The study addresses the emotional exacerbation in hate speech and behaviors fostered by the paranoid components of the individual and collective psyche. Thus, paranoid ideas and feelings are promoted, instigated by unscrupulous figures of power: the persecutor and the persecuted. Considered in psychiatry as a disease of meaning and strangeness, a psychic disorder based on rigid convictions and constant conspiracies that confirm themselves, there is a transposition of the paranoid person to the relationships with oneself and with the world. The phenomenon of disconnection from reality occurs, the closure in a circuit of projections and defenses against supposed enemies. The sovereignty of the single meaning that repels multiplicity creates situations of fear and resentment in a world controlled by immediate information and permeated by uncertainty, which stimulates narcissism, distrust and media consumerism. ■

: Paranoia; Massification; Dystopia; Analytical Psychology.

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