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(1949). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 30:36-47

Remarks on the Relation of Male Homosexuality to Paranoia, Paranoid Anxiety and Narcissism

Herbert Rosenfeld

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1 Enlarged from a short communication read as part of a symposium on Male Homosexuality in the British Psychoanalytical Society, November 17, 1948.

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PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL THEORIES OF PARANOIA

The problems I wish to discuss concern the interrelations between homosexuality and paranoia, paranoid anxiety and narcissism. As early as 1908, Freud discussed with some prominent analysts of that time, particularly Ferenczi and Jung, the intimate relationship which he felt invariably existed between paranoia and latent homosexuality; and since then many papers on paranoia have appeared in the analytic literature. Most of the earlier and some of the later authors think that the projection of the latent homosexuality is the most important factor in this disease. Ferenczi in 1912 went so far as to suggest that paranoia may be simply a distorted form of

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