Hence, diffuse anxiety is transformed into focused worries. Worries are known and measurable quantities. They have reasons which can be tackled and eliminated. They have a beginning and an end. They are linked to names, to places, faces and to people.
Worries are human.
The language of human conduct in the face of real and immediate danger is cast over the Narcissist's anxiety. The paranoid seeks to alleviate his own voiding by irrationally clinging to rationality. This is the path that leads from the cloud of anxiety, through the lamp posts of worry to the consuming darkness of paranoia. Paranoia is a defence against anxiety and against aggression. The latter is projected outwards, upon imaginary others, the agents of one's crucifixion.