The lecture series "Contemporary Symptoms" of the ICF Seminar in Malaga, was the framework for Santiago Castellanos to give a lecture entitled "Paranoias of Contemporary Times” on the 25th of April 2025. Santiago points out here how the gradation of intensity of many current phenomena that find their root - consubstantial to the speaking being - in the "paranoid genesis of the self" are increased by the power of the prevailing discourses.