paranoïa

The acute mental confusion , the paranoïa may be developed secondarily among hystericals; they require a new psychological study, and claim no further attention in the description of the mental state of hystericals.

1901, “Deliriums”, in Caroline Rollin Corson, transl., The Mental State of Hystericals: A Study of Mental Stigmata and Mental Accidents, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, translation of original by Pierre Janet, pages 482–483

The second set of authors,—those who draw a distinct line of demarkation between the acute psychoses in question and chronic paranoïa are headed by Herz (15); Fritsch (16) and Meynert pointed out especially the fact that in all these acute psychoses the characteristic traits were a condition of confused consciousness and a difficulty in orientation; these traits seemed to them so characteristic that they applied the term confusion (verwirrheit) to the whole group of these acute diseases; they did not include in this group chronic paranoïa; no distinction was made, however, between acute mental confusion and acute paranoïa.

1902, Journal of Mental Pathology, pages 80–81

They drum through the garden with insulting accusation of theft! Is a Guggenheim worth stealing?—or this, paranoïa of chronic mistrust?[…]From the train’s arrival in Venezia, before one steps aboard the vaporetti, they know: any nobody is grist for a mill. The common ingredient is paranoïa.

1996, Dachine Rainer, edited by James Hogg, Giornale Di Venezia (Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory; volume 167), University of Salzburg, pages 32 and 91

After the challenge that the Devès marshaled in the Jeandet Affair, the hostility of the administration bordered on paranoïa.

2000, David Robinson, Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880–1920 (Western African Studies), Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 109

Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theory attributes an essential role to paranoïa as regards the constitution of subjectivity: «Sans cette dimension paranoiac, il n’y a pas de sujet. Il n’y a pas non plus d’ecriture» («Without this paranoid dimension, there can be no subject. Without it, writing is also impossible»).[…]We watch this writing subject whose writing, perhaps, is as much a function of his doubts, his paranoïa, and marginality. But the doubts, the paranoïa, and the contradictions are not a sign of failure.[…]Above all, TPA is a lesson and a reminder that paranoïa is both the permanent condition of the writing subject and what creates the permanent possibility of resignifying processes.

2002, Clive Thomson, “Mikhail Bakhtin’s Toward a Philosophy of the Act: Performance and Paranoïa”, in Dialogue. Carnival. Chronotope., number 1, pages 85 and 89