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==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]] 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>
==Jacques Lacan==
[[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]]. 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 reference to the functions and structure of [[speech]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 310</ref>
==See Also==
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* [[Absence]]
* [[Name-of-the-Father]]
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* [[Paranoia]]
* [[Psychosis]]
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* [[Other]]
* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Subject]]
* [[Symbolic]]
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