The aim of this paper is to discuss psychological suffering and the role of projection in paranoid states. It criticizes the relationship established by Freud between paranoid states and homosexuality, and brings about the question of psychotic enclaves linked to parental messages that manifest themselves as paradoxes and do not allow the child to actively symbolize these contents. These enclaves tend to install themselves at the level of the superego, preventing the superego from evolving to the Oedipian level. This produces a short circuit in the psychological topic structure, as the superego occupies an intermediary space between the ego and the external world, and the result is the coming into existence of projection in different terms than those described by Freud. Those projections can be thought of as something specific to the psychotic universe and relate to the degree of certainty that accompanies delusions lived by the individual in that state.
Projection; paranoid states; superego