The danger of querulant paranoids is a clinical notion present in the psychiatric field. The underlying subjective logic of their outbursts can be distinguished from those of murders or murder attempts perpetrated by psychotic subjects who, in doing so, attempt to treat the jouissance they are the object of. The specificities of the paranoid querulant delirium explain such logic and Lacan’s teaching allow for its comprehension. This delirium is built upon a jouissance prejudice that persecutes the subject. The deriving crimes are motivated by a wish for jouissance and perpetrated in the name of a justice ideal around which the subject organizes his existence.
Key words:
Paranoia; revindication; acting out; jouissance; ideal