paranoïa

English

Noun

paranoïa (uncountable)

1. Rare form of paranoia.
   • 1901, “Deliriums”, in Caroline Rollin Corson, transl., The Mental State of Hystericals: A Study of Mental Stigmata and Mental Accidents, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, translation of original by Pierre Janet, pages 482–483:

     The acute mental confusion , the paranoïa may be developed secondarily among hystericals; they require a new psychological study, and claim no further attention in the description of the mental state of hystericals.

   • 1902, Journal of Mental Pathology, pages 80–81:

     The second set of authors,—those who draw a distinct line of demarkation between the acute psychoses in question and chronic paranoïa are headed by Herz (15); Fritsch (16) and Meynert pointed out especially the fact that in all these acute psychoses the characteristic traits were a condition of confused consciousness and a difficulty in orientation; these traits seemed to them so characteristic that they applied the term confusion (verwirrheit) to the whole group of these acute diseases; they did not include in this group chronic paranoïa; no distinction was made, however, between acute mental confusion and acute paranoïa.

   • 1996, Dachine Rainer, edited by James Hogg, Giornale Di Venezia (Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Poetic Drama & Poetic Theory; volume 167), University of Salzburg, pages 32 and 91:

     They drum through the garden with insulting accusation of theft! Is a Guggenheim worth stealing?—or this, paranoïa of chronic mistrust? […] From the train’s arrival in Venezia, before one steps aboard the vaporetti, they know: any nobody is grist for a mill. The common ingredient is paranoïa.

   • 2000, David Robinson, Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880–1920 (Western African Studies), Athens, Oh.: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 109:

     After the challenge that the Devès marshaled in the Jeandet Affair, the hostility of the administration bordered on paranoïa.

   • 2001, Claire Bazin, Jane Eyre [de] Charlotte Brontë (Lectures d'une œuvre), Paris: éditions du temps, →ISBN, page 75:

     a. the furniture becomes an enemy: (a sort of) paranoïa.

   • 2002, Clive Thomson, “Mikhail Bakhtin’s Toward a Philosophy of the Act: Performance and Paranoïa”, in Dialogue. Carnival. Chronotope., number 1, pages 85 and 89:

     Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theory attributes an essential role to paranoïa as regards the constitution of subjectivity: «Sans cette dimension paranoiac, il n’y a pas de sujet. Il n’y a pas non plus d’ecriture» («Without this paranoid dimension, there can be no subject. Without it, writing is also impossible»). […] We watch this writing subject whose writing, perhaps, is as much a function of his doubts, his paranoïa, and marginality. But the doubts, the paranoïa, and the contradictions are not a sign of failure. […] Above all, TPA is a lesson and a reminder that paranoïa is both the permanent condition of the writing subject and what creates the permanent possibility of resignifying processes.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁa.nɔ.ja/

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Noun

paranoïa f (plural paranoïas)

1. paranoia

Further reading

• “paranoïa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.