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 The term '[[delusion]]' ([[French]]: ''[[{{Top}}délire]]'') is used in [[psychiatry]] to describe a firmly held [[false]] [[belief]], inconsistent with the information available and with the beliefs of the subject's social group.{{Bottom}}

[[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.

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]] universe by means of a [[substitute formation]].

As [[Freud]] commented in his [[work ]] on [[Schreber]]:<blockquote>"What we take to be the pathological production, the delusional [[formation]], is in [[reality ]] the attempt at recovery, the reconstruction."<ref>{{F}} "[[Works of Sigmund Freud|Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)]], " 1911c: [[SE ]] XII, 71</ref></blockquote>

==Other of the Other==The [[paranoid]] [[delusion]]al [[construction]] may take many forms. One common form, the "delusion of [[Lacanpersecution]] emphasizes ," revolves around the significance [[Other of the Other]], a hidden [[delusionsubject]] and stresses who pulls the importance strings of attending closely to the [[psychosis|psychoticbig Other]] (the [[symbolic]] [[patientorder]]'s own account of his ), and who controls our [[delusionthoughts]], conspires against us, watches us, etc.

The [[delusion]] is a form of [[discourse]], and must therefore be understood as "a field of [[signification]] that has organised a certain [[signifier]]."<ref>==See Also=={{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 * [[subjectSignifier]] who pulls the strings of the ||* [[big OtherSubject]] (the * [[symbolicSymbolic]] [[order]]), and who controls our thoughts, conspires against us, watches us, etc.{{Also}}

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