Paranoia: Digging your Slot

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"Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)" written by Freud reads:

If the persecutor Fleschig was originally a person whom Schreber loved, then God must also simply be the reappearance of some one else whom he loved, and probably of some one of greater importance. If we pursue this train of though, which seems to be a legitimate one, we shall be driven to the conclusion that this other person must have been his father; in which case it will become all the clearer that Fleschig must have stood for his brother…We are perfectly familiar with the infantile attitude of boys towards their father; it is composed of the same mixture of reverent submission and mutinous insubordination that we have found in Schreber’s relation with his God, and is the unmistakable prototype of that relation, which is faithfully copied from it (150).

It is all in the characters head that they can equalize or restore the person that left their lives, whether through natural death (as seems to be the case in the Dr. Schreber piece) or murder and revenge in the Greek tragedies. The Furies manipulation of the characters into making them think that, through cold blooded revenge, they can bring back things to the way they were and fill the void, is what happens to Dr. Schreber through paranoia. All characters in the Greek tragedies that we have seen, such as Hamlet, Medea, Clytemnestra, had a void that they wanted to fill in the tragedies. For instance, Medea lost her husband and father of her children to someone else and was forced to leave; Hamlet lost his father due to his uncle’s criminal actions; Clytemnestra’s daughter was sacrificed by Agamemnon; Hieronymus lost his son to cold blooded murder e...

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...ll kill any connection she ever had with him, restore her virginity, her past, and hurt him in the deepest way possible. She seems to forget how, even though she did not die in the end or suffer as the other characters, she had to kill her own flesh and blood, to achieve her foolish, paranoid beliefs. Of course her virginity cannot be restored by killing her sons. What’s been done is done, as the saying goes. Nothing that she does can ever restore her experiences with Jason. However, she lets the Furies manipulate her into believing that killing her sons, with Jason as witness, is the strategy towards restoring her purity, reputation, mental health, and life in general. Her honor. Paranoia made these characters and Schreber pay a deep price for their desire to fill the slots: they lost touch with reality. In the end, most of them paid with filling slots in coffins.

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