ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the elements that go to make up the emotional state which the psychoanalyst calls paranoia. The author preoccupation is with what is being done to him, or what might be done to him. When survival of the organism is first and foremost, development of the author's own person or that of others is a luxury he cannot afford. The human person is a creation. A choice has been made to create out of the disparate fragments a unified pattern. When psychoanalysts imagine the very paranoid or distrustful individual their minds tend to focus upon a wolf-like aggression and defensiveness combined with resentful sulkiness. It is outgoing, actively pushing the other person away and, in extreme cases, leading to grievous bodily injury or murder of the other. In this case not just one element is hated and disowned, but rather the whole paranoid system.
