“…the paranoiac lacks all vital flexibility and psychological sympathy. Even in the best of cases in which his tendencies are crowned with success, he does not know how to take advantage of it for his happiness. In reality, incapable of submitting to any collective disciple, even less so to any team spirit, a paranoiac, who on rare occasions may manage to occupy the place of leader, is almost always an outlaw; despised and punished as a schoolboy, a poor soldier, rejected at every turn.”
Jaques Lacan, “Structure of the paranoiac psychoses.” (1931)