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1Wit and paranoia offer related and alternative forms of discharge for certain repressed drives as well as social tendencies. Consequently wit may prove of symptomatic significance in relation to paranoia as well as to incipient social protest.
2The interplay between a paranoid individual and a discontented social group is traced in the career of Gogol. Repressed individual and political forces found outlets in common symbols which permitted each to find representation and discharge through the other.