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.

If there is one work that I have been sharing without moderation in my "Knowledge of the Ancients" workshops since 2021, it is Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiæ. I believe that this masterpiece is indeed one of those that most helps us to face life's misfortunes, and it seems urgent to me to rehabilitate it to the rightful notoriety that befits it.

The study of an ancient language as an antidote to modern-day loss of reason and totalitarianism? It may seem frivolous, but... From the origin of words to the structure of thought, Latin offers us a veritable arsenal of defense against mental decay.

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.

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in Tuscany, to a notary father and a peasant mother who left her son with his natural father, who raised him along with his nine brothers and two sisters. The mother was forbidden to see her son. His grandfather was also a notary. Leonardo da Vinci did receive an education, but it was very limited: he learned to read in the vernacular and would only study Latin later, as an autodidact. It seems that Tuscan nature served as his mot

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.

Nothing can replace, for the traveler, that feeling of arriving at the end of the world when he sets foot on Providence Island, located in the Caribbean Sea, off the eastern coast of Nicaragua.

Nothing is given, everything is to be conquered, and the aspiration to the sublime is what we are allowed to experience in Florence: time has stopped there on good taste, on beauty "universal and without concept", as Emmanuel Kant would later say.

"In the spring, which suits this city so well that speaks to us of flowers, I decided to come from South America to finally realize an old dream: to reopen, with a group of apprentice philosophers, the Neoplatonic Academy of Marsilio Ficino."

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

The religious fanaticism of adolescents is the hallmark of a societal and political system that has become paranoid, in which the logic of power is harassing and no longer governed by authority. In the suburbs of France, recruitment has been rather successful. It reveals the deep social, familial, and spiritual flaws in the society in which these adolescents grew up.

If terrorism is about terrorizing others, the question arises: who are the real terrorists? And what are they really motivated by?

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.

Marie Antoinette is both the most famous and the most misunderstood queen in the history of France. Born on November 2, 1755, in Vienna, Austria, she died by guillotine on October 16, 1793, in the Place de la Révolution in Paris (now Place de la Concorde). She reigned over France and Navarre from 1774 to 1791 and was Queen of the French from 1791 to 1792, the last queen of the Ancien Régime, Archduchess of Austria, Imperial Princess and Royal Princess of Hungary and Bohemia,

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.