This article consists of a psychoanalytic study on a paranoiac patient named Lia. She is a full-time artist as well as writer, and, in spinning her tales, she saw the line that separates fiction from reality evaporate as she wrote. Lia produces novels and poems, and paints on any medium she has at hand. We can suppose that her paranoia cannot be separated from her literary and graphic production, since they are so closely interwoven. Therefore, the psychoanalytic treatment with this patient was based specifically on that which constituted her paranoia, namely, her writings and artistic production. As the analytic situation evolved, her writing was transformed by the reading by another outside her. In this niche Lia was able to construct a different form of subjectivation.
Writing; reading; paranoia; psychoanalysis