Autore: Bonvecchio, Claudio
Titolo: Il potere della paranoia: il mito del Dittatore
Periodico: Società mutamento politica (Online)
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 3 - Fascicolo: 6 - Pagina iniziale: 63 - Pagina finale: 78

The essay – after noting the fundamental difference between authority and power in which power must be the expression of authority – points out how authority has always had a sacred or transcendent foundation. In modern society, on the contrary, power has autonomized itself from authority, which has become a mere application procedure. This, in fact, has undermine power, which in times of crisis – in the extremus necessitatis casus – needs a new legitimacy: that of a new authority on which to be based on. This derives from collective unconscious and gives rise to the emergence of a particular figure: the dictator. The dictator resembles the archetypal figure of the Saviour, but in that he does not hold any sacred character, he is at risk of being overwhelmed by the load of his function. He is liable to becoming paranoid. He falls prey to the "paranoia of power", which manifests itself in psychopathological behaviors that are highlighted in the article through the sketch of their phenomenology. These behaviors culminate in a delirium of omnipotence, megalomania and a desire for destruction with effects of enormous danger on society. When the crisis is over, the dictator is doomed to disappear and in its place a (not procedural) new and legitimate authority should take over. If not, the risk at issue is that of a continuous instability of power.




SICI: 2038-3150(2012)3:6<63:IPDPIM>2.0.ZU;2-I
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