Freud and the Paranoia

In the course of his exercises in desiring production, Beckett's Malloy is cross-examined by a policeman. The questions put to him are formulated in terms of the existing social cold. A process of decomposition of this kind is very characteristic of paranoia. Paranoia decomposes just as hysteria condenses and resolves once more into their elements. Freud stresses the important of these disjunctive synthesis and shavers delirium in particular but also in delirium.