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Paranoia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠love that can only speak in the negative: the unavowable feeling finally surfaces as the persecutory "interpretation".

Paranoia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a grammar exercise in denying 'I love him': 'I hate him', 'It is not him but her', 'He hates me', 'It is she who loves me'.

Paranoia (n.) seems ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠animated by belief yet rests on Unglauben — not disbelief but the absence of the term of belief in which the subject is divided.

Paranoia (n.) after ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠analysis needs no good analyst to produce it — it's enough to believe very fervently in psychoanalysis.

Paranoia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠taking the imaginary for the real — so an analysis that ignores the imaginary register produces it, teaching patients to find their partial drives out there in reality.

Paranoia (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠France, before Lacan's thesis, just meant a nasty person — proud, mistrustful, irritable, self-overrating — who, pushed far enough, ended up deluding.

Paranoia (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Kraepelin defined it (gradual, internally caused, undisturbable, lucid) contradicts the clinic point by point; there isn't a word of truth in it.

Paranoia (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the textbooks describe it turns out, read aloud out of context, to be a wonderful description of everyone's behaviour.

Paranoia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a circuit that shuts out the big Other: it closes between a puppet that speaks and an ego that speaks only by allusion.