The Delusion of being watched (n.) may be right: in each of us an inner agency observes and threatens to punish, which in the paranoiac has only been split off and moved outside.
The Delusion of being watched (n.) is true: a power watching, discovering and criticizing all our intentions really exists — in every one of us in normal life.
Delusional jealousy (n.) is what is left of a repressed homosexuality, warded off by the formula "I do not love him; she loves him".
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".
Delusional jealousy (n.) can be a mirror image of one's own forbidden love: imagining the spouse unfaithful lays a cooling compress on one's own burning wound.
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.
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Delusions of grandeur (n.) is love withdrawn from the world and turned back on the self, the same overvaluation lovers give their beloved.
Delusions of grandeur (n.) is love withdrawn from the world and turned back upon the ego.
Erotomania (n.) begins not with an inner perception of loving but with an outer perception of being loved: "she loves me".