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[[Paranoia]] is a form of [[psychosis]] -- characterized principally by [[delusions]].
==Sigmund Freud==
===Schreber Case===
[[Freud]]'s experience of [[treatment|treating ]] [[paranoiacs]] was limited. [[Freud]]'s most extensive work on [[paranoia]] is an [[analysis]] of the written memoirs of a [[paranoiac]] - a judge named [[Daniel Paul Schreber]]).<ref>Freud. 1911c</ref> For [[Freud]], [[paranoia]] is a [[defence]] against [[homosexuality]]. He argued that the different forms of [[paranoiac]] [[delusion]] are based on different ways of negating the phrase "I (a man) love him." [[Freud]]'s formulations in the [[Schreber]] [[case]] were based upon the utilization of the [[libido]] [[theory]] and an attempt to understand [[paranoia]] in terms of [[psychosexual]] [[disturbance]]. ==Oedipal conflict==The [[psychoanalytic]] understanding of [[paranoia]] shifted to a core [[oedipal]] [[conflict]]. The [[paranoid]] [[defend]]s against [[unconscious]] [[homosexual]] [[wish]]es.
==Jacques Lacan==
===Case of Aimée===
[[Lacan]]'s interest in [[paranoia]] predates his interest in [[psychoanalysis]].
It is the subject of his first major work, his doctoral dissertation.<ref>Lacan, {{1932}}</ref>
In this work, [[Lacan]] discusses a [[psychotic]] [[woman]] whom he calls '"[[Aimée]]'", whom he [[diagnose]]s as suffering from '"[[self-punishment paranoia]]' " (''[[paranoïa d'autopunition]]'') - a new [[clinical structure]] proposed by [[Lacan]] himself.
===Seminar III===
[[Lacan]] returns to the [[subject]] of [[paranoia]] in his [[seminar]] of 1955-6, [[Seminar III|The Psychoses]] which he devotes to a sustained commentary on the [[Schreber]] [[case]].
[[Lacan]] finds [[Freud]]'s [[theory]] about the [[homosexual]] roots of [[paranoia]] inadequate and proposes instead his own [[theory]] of [[foreclosure]] the specific [[mechanism]] of [[psychosis]].
==Paranoiac Structure==
Like all [[clinical structure]]s, [[paranoia]] reveals in a particularly vivid way certain basic features of the [[psyche]].
===Paranoiac Alienation===
The [[ego]] has a [[paranoiac]] [[structure]]<ref>{{E}} p.20</ref> because it is the site of a [[paranoiac]] [[alienation]].<ref>{{E}} p.5</ref>
===Paranoiac Knowledge===
[[Knowledge]] (''[[connaissance]]'') itself is [[paranoiac]].<ref>{{E}} p.2, 3, 17</ref>
===Analytic Treatment===
The process of [[psychoanalytic treatment]] induces controlled [[paranoia]] into the [[human]] [[subject]].<ref>{{E}} p.15</ref>
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Defence]]
* [[Defense mechanism]]
* [[Delusions]]
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* [[Foreclosure]]
* [[Knowledge]]
* [[Narcissism]]
||* [[KnowledgeProjection]]
* [[Psychosis]]
* [[ProjectionStructure]] {{Also}}
==References==
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[[Category:Freudian psychology]]
