In this article Meissner elaborates on his theories of the paranoid process. He first describes a patient who he later confesses is actually a character from one of Dostoevsky's books. His main thesis, about which he has written on previous occasions, pertains to the responsibility of the early introjects in the formation of the distorted paranoid personality structure which re-emerge later in life due to the stresses and strains of living. He goes into an elaborate discussion