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The interrelationships between manic-depressive psychoses and paranoia are explored from the psychoanalytic standpoint. Emphasis is placed upon the conception that the Oedipus complex constitutes the nuclei of psychoses as well as of neuroses. The pregenital fixation points of the psychoses are examined
in terms of their regressive representation of Oedipal conflicts. The superego, which desexualizes the images of the parents in the primal scene, resolves this problem in paranoia by projecting the voyeuristic impulses and criticisms, in depression by turning the criticism against the self, and in mania by denying the criticism and identifying with the primal scene parents. The conditions determining these reactions are examined from the clinical and dynamic aspects.
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