An Introduction

De te fabula narratur!
(Horace, Satires) cited by Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867


And the paranoid builds it again, not more splendid, it is true, but at least so that he can once more live in it. He builds up by the work of his delusions. The delusional formation, which we take to be pathological product, is in reality an attempt at recovery, a process of reconstruction.
Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen über einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von Paranoia (Dementia paranoides), 1911
(translated by Andrew Webber, The Schreber Case, Penguin Books)



People are strange, when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked, when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven, when you're down

When you're strange -faces come out of the rain
When you're strange -no one remembers your name
When you're strange, when you're strange, when you're strange

The Doors, People Are Strange, 1967