Why Delirium?

Delirium is a "... disturbance of thought content, product of a deviant and biased opinion, that makes a story more or less complex, more or less plausible or absurd, but always pathologically wrong, and the reality of which the patient has a complete certainty and is irreducible in his convictions. "

Regarding the trial may be noted that fulfills its function through two stages. The first stage of processing is done through relationships and identification and the second critical stage is accomplished by means of comparison and evaluation.

Regarding pathological error that can be said is that it differs from the standard error that is irreducible, is not reached by experience or by demonstration, not by persuasion.

This error stems from the pathological failure of the judgmental function is evidenced by the delusional subject comparison and assessment by a deviant.

These concepts, while having a great importance in determining the time about the existence of delusions, and along with other concepts related to the degree of systematization of delirium, his argument and predominant formation mechanism, and so on. can also orient towards a diagnosis, is not without importance to get to know something about the reason for its content and argument, even though this is only an examiner's concern, and may even be irrelevant to expert conclusions concerning the state mind of the accused at the time of the events that led to his arrest.

Constructions in Psychoanalysis (1937) is one of the texts in which Freud argues that the delusion owes its convincing power to an element of historical truth that has been inserted into the site of a rejected reality. Delirium comes to fill this gap and in this sense Lacan say that delirium is a metaphor alternate. Freud says he owes his power to the element of historical truth of the past have brought primeval, of pre-primary repression. Delirium, on one hand in the place of a rejected reality and at the same time, realizing this primordial truth.

From here leave the work to relate the delusional theme with the story and get to know something about the way certain events and relationships that led to the current illness and thus, perhaps, in some cases to find an explanation that transferred the diagnosis border and bring us closer to why.