Sex of the Persecutor in Female Paranoid Patients

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Freud states that in the female paranoid reaction the first or original persecutor is a female.1 In the case presented in this paper, the patient initially speaks of her persecutor as her male lover. During a subsequent interview, Freud elicited the information that the "original" persecutor—the agency whose influence the patient wished to escape—was not a man but a woman. "Let us consider again the outstanding fact that the patient protects herself against her love for a man by means of a paranoiac delusion. The key to the understanding of this is to be found in the evolution of the delusion. As we might have expected, the latter was at first aimed against the woman, the subsequent progression from a female to a male object was, however, made on a paranoiac basis. Such a progression is unusual in paranoia; as a rule we find that the victim
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