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A Note on the Possibility of a Paranoia of Everyday Life. Louis Diamant. Pp. 201-218.
Diamant states that there is a "paranoïa quotidienne"—the paranoia of everyday life. He has observed a "mini-system" of paranoia in people who are not clinically paranoid and presents three case examples. This mini-system involves primitive ideas and affects. A wound to self-esteem produces ideas of persecution, self-righteousness, jealousy, and mild omnipotence. Regression from the genital to the phallic state occurs, and an anal-obsessive style appears.