diff --git a/java/java-psi-impl/src/com/intellij/psi/controlFlow/LocalsOrMyInstanceFieldsControlFlowPolicy.java b/java/java-psi-impl/src/com/intellij/psi/controlFlow/LocalsOrMyInstanceFieldsControlFlowPolicy.java
index 86b82a0bc4ec..85a7fd8a6d99 100644
--- a/java/java-psi-impl/src/com/intellij/psi/controlFlow/LocalsOrMyInstanceFieldsControlFlowPolicy.java
+++ b/java/java-psi-impl/src/com/intellij/psi/controlFlow/LocalsOrMyInstanceFieldsControlFlowPolicy.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package com.intellij.psi.controlFlow;
 
 import com.intellij.psi.*;
+import com.intellij.psi.util.PsiUtil;
 import com.intellij.util.ObjectUtils;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ public class LocalsOrMyInstanceFieldsControlFlowPolicy implements ControlFlowPol
    * the reference actually resolves to variable.
    */
   public static boolean isLocalOrMyInstanceReference(PsiReferenceExpression variableReference) {
-    PsiExpression qualifierExpression = variableReference.getQualifierExpression();
+    PsiExpression qualifierExpression = PsiUtil.skipParenthesizedExprDown(variableReference.getQualifierExpression());
     // JLS 16: "Such an assignment is defined to occur if and only if either the simple name of the variable
     // (or, for a field, its simple name qualified by this) occurs on the left hand side of an assignment operator"
     // Qualified this is not allowed by spec
diff --git a/java/java-tests/testData/codeInsight/daemonCodeAnalyzer/advHighlighting/AssignToFinal.java b/java/java-tests/testData/codeInsight/daemonCodeAnalyzer/advHighlighting/AssignToFinal.java
index c648224d9818..90d435feeb14 100644
--- a/java/java-tests/testData/codeInsight/daemonCodeAnalyzer/advHighlighting/AssignToFinal.java
+++ b/java/java-tests/testData/codeInsight/daemonCodeAnalyzer/advHighlighting/AssignToFinal.java
@@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ class QualifiedThis {
 
 class ParenthesizedThis {
   final int x;
-  final int y = (this).x + 1; // allowed as qualifier is not naked 'this'!
+  final int y = <error descr="Variable '(this).x' might not have been initialized">(this).x</error> + 1; // javac allows this?
 
   ParenthesizedThis() {
-    <error descr="Cannot assign a value to final variable 'x'">(this).x</error> = 5;
-    this.x = 6;
+    (this).x = 5;
+    <error descr="Variable 'x' might already have been assigned to">this.x</error> = 6;
   }
 }
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