In this article a distinction will be made between « paranoia » or « bond-paranoia » and paranoid structure. At adolescence, the subject is confronted to the failure of the Other. One way to counter this fall is to make it exist as his persecutor. Bond-paranoia thus finds its raison d’être in this crisis of the relation to the Other.

Adolescence, 2008, T. 26, n°3, pp. 697-707.