paranoia

[Tony Elias]

I think I would agree Paul, that the reality principle, in certain
situations would have a greater chance of intervening in cases with
intelligent patients but it seems that this is one of the paradoxes of
paranoia (of which there seem to be many many many). 

The basic problem from which these sprout i think, is that knowledge and
communication are paranoid activities. Paranoia seems to be necessary drive
in the formation of any identity and the basis for any "worldview" for the
simple reason of our (linguistic? biologic?) constitution. there is "I" and
there is "Other" - you are I because there is Other. 

Lacan's notion of paranoid knowledge and the paranoid nature of the ego is
significant for it is both the basis for any kind of intersubjective
relation, between I's and Others, as well as the possible site for real
psychosis.

Tony Elias