The cost of these Olympics is unreasonable, no decision holds water, everything becomes perfectly illogical to the point that the only rationally plausible explanation is that of an additional experiment in social control and a test of submission among the population.

Nowadays, "parliamentary immunity" allows members of parliament to escape the consequences of their actions. In ancient Athens, it was exactly the opposite: by proposing an inadmissible law, one put one's own life on the line... Is it any wonder that our regimes, deprived of any checks and balances, descend into chaos?

This work is masterful, because in a few pages, Leo Löwenthal manages to paint the finest psychological portrait I know, especially for his time, of atomization in a totalitarian period, that is to say, of the role played by terror in transforming the individual into an isolated and desperate cell at the heart of a large mass. This German sociologist and philosopher, linked to the Frankfurt School, who emigrated to the United States to flee Nazism, was aware of the cancellati

Unlike the Colombian people among whom she lives, Ariane Bilheran notes that the French constantly demand their dose of illusions. Recent outbursts of collective hatred and hypocrisy vividly illustrate this addiction.

Infiltration and stalking by the secret services, arrest in Mexico on charges as diverse as they are provisional, betrayal, solitary confinement: the founder of the Grand Jury was spared nothing. The persecution of Reiner Fuellmich speaks volumes about the decline of the rule of law in Germany and the West. We take stock with Ms. Virginie de Araújo-Recchia, dated June 19, 2024.

When we lose our bearings, when values are reversed, and when civilization is going through intense turbulence, it is always relevant to return to the works of the Ancients, to the very origins of what founded our humanities. The thought of Empedocles, diverse and abundant, gives us in particular a key to understanding our era of hatred — and also of awakening!

If there is one figure who inflames minds and unleashes passions, it is Sigmund Freud. The "father of psychoanalysis", who has been called a charlatan, a Zionist, an occult magician, an incestuous father, and so on, leaves no one indifferent. In France in particular, he is credited with the discovery of "infantile sexuality".

Thus, as incredible as it may seem, the entire "declaration of sexual rights", which is now being rolled out by the WHO, in the name of "sexual health" (a linguistic misuse on which there would also be much to say), is based on a sophism which has distorted the logic of reasoning in order to better manipulate public opinion.

By applying a psychopathological key to the phenomenon of totalitarianism, Ariane Bilheran has undertaken pioneering work and considerably deepened our knowledge of this phenomenon, which until now had been confined to sociopolitical analysis. As her original vision gradually established itself as an essential approach, it seemed useful to her to return to the origins and inspirations of her idea.

The October Revolution in Russia officially plunged the world into the totalitarian era. It was preceded by an intense political, social, and ideological struggle, spearheaded by terrorism. A "witness to history", imagined by a Russian novelist, revealed the psychology of the young activists who sacrificed themselves to establish a dream of freedom that ended in nightmare. Is it a coincidence that the novel was subtitled "the book of endings"?

Following our report on "The Dictatorship on the Move!", in the latest issue of "Elements", we interviewed Ariane Bilheran at length, who has just published a very rich Psychopathologie du totalitarisme published by Guy Trédaniel. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, philosopher, clinical psychologist, doctor in psychopathology, and collaborator of "Antipresse" by our friend and collaborator Slobodan Despot, no one was better placed than Ariane Bilheran to analyze the

Hippocrates reminds us that medicine is an art. Confusing medicine, which presupposes an empirical relationship between patient and doctor, with hard science is a misunderstanding that leads to the objectification of the other. Totalitarianism, which precisely seeks to objectify the human, necessarily engenders an ideology of "scientific" medicine bordering on sectarian blindness.

The establishment of the Covid dystopia has led to profound ruptures within our societies. Groups have formed to resist the reign of the absurd and the health dictatorship, new media have emerged, and also, of course, opinion leaders and charismatic figures.

Reading note on Psychopathologie du totalitarisme, Psychopathology of totalitarianism in the journal Éléments by Rémi Soulié. If Plato and Aristotle, according to Pascal, "wrote about politics, it was as if to regulate a madhouse". Pascal did not believe he was right, for want of having known totalitarianism, whose canonical distinction with so-called liberal and representative democracy seems increasingly difficult to maintain for Ariane Bilheran...

In an age of ubiquitous advertising, Klemperer's reflection remains acutely relevant. Better than anyone else, he understood the power of enchantment and self-alienation conveyed by the words of language.

The author of The Language of the Third Reich was a firsthand witness to the German totalitarian drift. Here we continue reading his diary, rich in poignant descriptions.

Victor Klemperer's study of the rhetoric of Nazism is a text of universal scope that allows us to understand the inner logic of all totalitarian phenomena. Ariane Bilheran undertakes here a detailed portrait of this great witness of the 20th century.

Let's continue our analysis of the political marketing deployed on citizens. Omnipresent today, across various crucial issues, social engineering distributes ritualistic codes that signify membership in a particular game, which people choose to be the one designated by those in power. In doing so, they gamble on having a greater chance of "winning".

In the first part of this interview, Ms. Virginie de Araújo-Recchia gave us the details of the incredible search and arrest of which she was the victim in France.

What do you call a regime that makes lawyers complicit in the crimes their clients are accused of? A regime that criminalizes the expression of dissenting opinions, that sends its special services to arrest dissidents in the early hours, that "cooks" them incommunicado and arbitrarily confiscates their documents?