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Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Schreber)
30 concepts · 38 definitions
- alcohol1
- analyst1
- apocalypse1
- decomposition1
- deification1
- delusion4
- delusional jealousy1
- delusional system1
- delusions of grandeur2
- detachment of libido1
- discretion1
- engagement1
- erotomania1
- fixation point1
- hypochondria1
- improbability1
- interpretation1
- mythopoeic thought1
- narcissism1
- neurosis1
- paranoia4
- persecution1
- projection2
- psychiatrist1
- repression1
- schizophrenia1
- sun1
- totem1
- vagueness1
- wonder1
A Delusion (n.) looks like the illness but is really an attempt at recovery, a reconstruction of the world so that one can live in it again.
Delusion (n.) however strange and remote from ordinary thinking derive from the most general and comprehensible impulses of the human mind, Freud suspects.
A Delusion (n.) may resemble a theory uncomfortably; whether there is more delusion in the theory or more truth in the delusion, Freud says, the future must decide.
A Delusion (n.) can turn from sexual persecution into religious grandeur, the persecutor's part passing from physician to God.
Paranoia (n.) has a grammar: from "I love him", jealousy contradicts the subject, persecution the verb, erotomania the object, and megalomania the whole sentence.
Paranoia (n.) is defined not by its complexes, which all neuroses share, but by its mechanism: how symptoms form and repression works.
Paranoia (n.) betrays in distorted form exactly what other neurotics keep secret, so a written self-account can stand in for personal acquaintance with the patient.
Paranoia (n.) translates into normal speech by the usual technique: strip a statement of its negative form, take an example for the thing itself, a quotation or gloss for the original source.
Projection (n.) is not, in paranoia, an inner perception thrown outward; what was abolished inside returns from without.
Projection (n.) replaces, in paranoia, an internal perception, a feeling, by an external one: 'I hate him' becomes 'he hates and persecutes me'.
Delusions of grandeur (n.) cannot arise by mere rationalization of persecution, as textbooks say: to ascribe such affective consequences to a rationalization is unpsychological.
Delusions of grandeur (n.) is a sexual overvaluation of the ego, infantile in nature, sacrificed to social considerations and never so suppressed as in overpowering love.
Decomposition (n.) is characteristic of paranoia: paranoia decomposes just as hysteria condenses, resolving into their elements the condensations and identifications made in the unconscious.
Alcohol (n.) removes inhibitions and undoes sublimations, and disappointment in a woman often drives a man to drink and to the company of men.
An Analyst (n.) who reaches beyond typical cases needs tact and restraint: more acumen means less certainty, and one errs toward caution, another toward boldness.
The Apocalypse (n.) is projected, in paranoid delusion, from an inner catastrophe: the patient's subjective world has ended because he has withdrawn his love from it.
Deification (n.) was routine for the Romans, whose gods stood closer to men; Vespasian sighed when he fell ill, 'I think I am becoming a god.'
Delusional jealousy (n.) suspects the partner of loving those whom one is oneself tempted to love: "it is not I who love, it is she".