Da pseudociência paranóica à ciência da paranóia

Abstract

Even before reading President Schreber's Memories, Freud was searching for a metapsychological explanation of paranoia. In this paper developed in essayistic form, the authors show us how Schreber offered his paranoid knowledge to science and how Freud had to struggle with paranoia in the bosom of the psychoanalytic society, as it certifies his personal correspondence, fighting in order not to surrender, as Fliess and Ferenczi, to the temptation of a delirious sexual theory.