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This study examines what happens to shame in paranoid psychosis, and emphasizes how the treatment of shame can follow on from delusion, via the construction of a persecuting ‘Other’. This may give rise to the impression that the paranoid subject is free from shame, placing all the shameful enjoyment on this ‘Other’. It will be demonstrated that this is not the case when this subject returning from their deluded state is convinced, in particular, that their dignity has been affected and that they have been reduced, by the ‘Other’, to the level of a shameful object.