 | Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau Subjects: Civilization Modern -- Psychological aspects; Paranoia -- Philosophy; Paranoia in literature; Agent (Philosophy); Personality and culture; "Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness... John Farrell is Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. He is also the author of Freud's Paranoid Quest: Psychoanalysis and Modern Suspicion . |
