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[[Delusion]]s ([[French]]: ''[[{{Top}}délire]]'') are usually defined in [[psychiatry]] as firmly held [[false]] [[belief]]s, inconsistent with the information available and with the beliefs of the subject's social group.{{Bottom}}

==Paranoia==[[Delusion]]s are usually defined in [[psychiatry]] as firmly held, incorrigible false beliefs, inconsistent with the information available with the beliefs of the [[subject]]'s social group. [[Delusion]]s are the central [[clinical]] feature of [[paranoia]], and can range from single ideas to complex networks of [[belief]]s.

==Name-of-the-Father==In [[Lacan]]ian terms, the [[paranoiac]] [[lack]]s the [[Name-of-the-Father]], and the [[delusion]] is the [[paranoiac]]'s attempt to fill the [[hole]] left in his [[symbolic|symbolic universe]] universe by the [[absence]] of this primordial [[signifier]].   Thus the [[delusion]] is not the '"illness' " of [[paranoia]] itself; it is, on the contrarybut rather, the [[paranoiac]]'s attempt to heal himself, to pull himself out of the breakdown of the [[symbolic|symbolic universe]] universe by means of a [[substitute formation]].

"What we take ==Jacques Lacan==[[Lacan]] insists on the significance of the [[delusion]] and stresses the importance of attending closely to be the pathological production[[psychosis|psychotic]] [[patient]]'s own account of his [[delusion]]. The [[delusion]] is a form of [[discourse]], the delusional formation, is and must therefore be understood as "a field of [[signification]] that has organised a certain [[signifier]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 121</ref> For this reason all [[delusion]]al phenomena are "clarified in reality the attempt at recovery, reference to the reconstructionfunctions and structure of [[speech]]."<ref>Freud, 1911c: SE XII, 71{{S3}} p. 310</ref>

[[Lacan]] insists on the significance of the [[delusion]] and stresses the importance of attending closely to the [[psychosis|psychotic]] [[patient]]'s own account of his [[delusion]]. ==See Also== The [[delusion]] is a form of [[discourse]], and must therefore be understood as "a field of signification that has organised a certain signifier."<ref>{{S3See}} p.121</ref>  For this reason all * [[delusionAbsence]]al phenomena are "clarified in reference to the functions and structure of * [[speechName-of-the-Father]]."<ref>{{S3}} p.310</ref>||The * [[paranoidParanoia]] * [[delusionPsychosis]]al construction may take many forms. ||One common form, the "delusion of persecution," revolves around the * [[Other of the Other]], a hidden subject who pulls the strings of the * [[big OtherSignifier]] (the ||* [[symbolicSubject]] * [[orderSymbolic]]), and who controls our thoughts, conspires against us, watches us, etc.{{Also}}

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