This thesis discusses paranoia and schizophrenia in the speculative fiction (S.F.) of Philip K. Dick. My claim is that Dick's S.F. portrays paranoids as characters who are more than usually able to negotiate realities that are schizophrenic. Paranoids in Dick's S.F. are emblematic of internality, and of indeterminate and emotive subjectivity.;That is, Dick's paranoids generally perform a positive role and paranoia itself is assigned benevolent characteristics. Consequently, Dicks construction falls outside those current prominent literary and cultural paradigms that express both a negative view of paranoia and an ambivalence about subjectivity. Dick's idiosyncrasies in these areas may therefore point to a gap in the explanatory power of such current cultural and literary theories.;It is important, moreover, to read Dick within the context of his Gnostic and Zoroastrian motifs in order to appreciate his valuation of knowledge and interpretation as necessary and potentially positive components of human agency and in order to see Dick himself as the successful literary figure that he is, rather than as the figure of a failed poststructuralist or postmodernist.
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机译：本文讨论了菲利普·迪克（Philip K. Dick）的投机小说（S.F.）中的偏执狂和精神分裂症。我的主张是迪克的S.F.将偏执狂描绘成比平常更有能力谈判精神分裂症现实的角色。迪克S.F.中的偏执狂是内在性，不确定性和情感主观性的象征。也就是说，迪克的偏执狂通常扮演积极的角色，而偏执狂本身则被赋予了仁慈的特征。因此，狄克斯的建构超出了当前那些突出的文学和文化范式，这些范式既表达了对偏执狂的否定看法，也表达了对主观性的矛盾。因此，迪克在这些领域的特质可能表明了这种当前文化和文学理论在解释力上的差距。此外，重要的是，在迪克的诺斯替格和琐罗亚斯德教徒的主题背景下阅读迪克，以欣赏他对知识的评价。和解释是人类代理的必要和潜在的积极组成部分，以便使迪克本人成为自己所成功的文学人物，而不是失败的后结构主义者或后现代主义者的人物。
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