“(He) regards reality as the sole enemy and as the source of all suffering, with which it is impossible to live, so that one must break off all relations with it if one is to be in any way happy. The hermit turns his back on the world and will have no truck with it. But one can do more than that; one can try to re-create the world, to build up its stead another world in which its most unbearable features are eliminated and replaced by others that are in conformity with one’s own wishes. Reality is too strong for him. He becomes a madman, who for the most part finds no one to help him in carrying through his delusion. It is asserted, however, that each one of us behaves in some one respect like a paranoiac, corrects some aspects of the world, which is unbearable to him by the construction of a wish and introduces these delusions into reality.“ FREUD









