What Is Sedgwick's Explanation Of Paranoia?

In this article, Eve Sedgwick criticizes the Freudian “paranoid reading” for precluding any other epistemologies, and suggests “reparative reading” as an alternative way of treating text. To begin with, she mentions about the Freudian explanation that paranoia originates from the repression of same-sex desire. Sedgwick criticizes this conventional psychoanalysis, which inevitably pathologizes homosexuality as paranoia. As borrowing Hocquenghem’s reasoning, she argues that paranoia reflects not homosexuality, but rather the homophobic perspective on it. Nevertheless, Sedgwick condemns, many queer theorists duplicate the paranoid structure when they refute the homophobic explanation of paranoia.
She infers that the phobic epistemology could