#20 – The Underground Spirit
The Martyr Made Podcast
Dostoevsky's Paranoia
Dostoevsky's second novel provides an almost complete illustration of what a mind is like in a paranoid state. He imagines that others must be focusing on him equally as much and he goes through tremendous mental convolutions to maintain the illusion. Both narsisus and paranoids often suffer hard, hard breakdowns if their psychological defences fail.
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