ABSTRACT
Interpretation of the paranoid alcoholic’s increased capacity for projection after alcoholic indulgence: one might suppose that censorship in the sense of repression did not exist in the paranoiac, as everything unconscious comes through to the conscious. What one loves becomes absorbed into one’s ego, for in the last resort one can love only oneself. When the transition to object-love takes place one introjects objective perception. The paranoiac’s hallucinatory falsifications are a dream-like-wish-fulfilling confirmation of his delusional idea; they represent the victory of the projection wish over the evidence of his senses. A dream is a paranoid projection, the transformation into the objective of a subjective state, of something of which the dreamer is deprived, with a changed symbol. A patient reported a peculiar feeling of being looked at that he experienced on several occasions immediately after full sexual satisfaction.
