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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, but rather, the [[paranoiac]]'s attempt to heal himself, to pull himself out of the breakdown of the [[symbolic|symbolic universe]] by means of a [[substitute formation]].

Thus the As [[delusionFreud]] is not the 'illness' of commented in his [[paranoiawork]] itself; it is, on [[Schreber]]:<blockquote>"What we take to be the contrarypathological production, the delusional [[formation]], is in [[paranoiacreality]]'s the attempt to heal himselfat recovery, to pull himself out of the breakdown of the reconstruction."<ref>{{F}} "[[symbolicWorks of Sigmund Freud|Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)]] universe by means of a ," 1911c: [[substitute formationSE]]. XII, 71</ref></blockquote>

As ==Jacques Lacan==[[FreudLacan]] commented 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]]. The [[delusion]] is a [[form]] of [[discourse]], 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 his work on reference to the functions and [[structure]] of [[Schreberspeech]]:."<ref>{{S3}} p. 310</ref>

"What we ==Other of the Other==The [[paranoid]] [[delusion]]al [[construction]] may take to be many forms. One common form, the pathological production"delusion of [[persecution]], " revolves around the [[Other of the delusional formationOther]], is in reality a hidden [[subject]] who pulls the strings of the [[big Other]] (the attempt at recovery[[symbolic]] [[order]]), and who controls our [[thoughts]], the reconstruction."<ref>Freudconspires against us, 1911c: SE XIIwatches us, 71</ref>etc.

==See Also=={{See}}* [[LacanAbsence]] insists on the significance of the * [[delusion]] and stresses the importance Name-of attending closely to -the [[psychosis|psychotic-Father]] ||* [[patientParanoia]]'s own account of his * [[delusionPsychosis]]. ||The * [[delusionOther]] is a form of * [[discourseSignifier]], 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 * [[delusionSubject]]al phenomena are "clarified in reference to the functions and structure of * [[speechSymbolic]]."<ref>{{S3Also}} p.310</ref> The [[paranoid]] [[delusion]]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 Other]] (the [[symbolic]] [[order]]), and who controls our thoughts, conspires against us, watches us, etc.

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