Structure of a delusion. IV. Composition of a delusional text
Saurí, J.J.
Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicologica de America Latina 26(4): 283-292
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-6896 PMID: 7348060 Document Number: 168222
The delusional text organizes and disposes itself in a peculiar way. Certain organizators --in Eugenio's case there are five--conform to a distributive pattern charged of the distribution of the text sequences. But delusion is not disorder and Eugenio's text is organized in the axe "dependence-law" in its double meaning of "precept sanction vs. observance and infraction". This dualism is characteristic of the delusional text and its coherence depends on the articulation between sequences. This text is defined by these relations and does not constitute an "illness" as naturalism thought. It is an attempt to answer, though in a deviated and distorted way, questions that the world poses building, thus, a different world. The delusional polisemia grown out of this conective signification is, at the same time, metonimic. This last character is of great importance as it bears an influence on the signification and pushes it into a rational "restauration". This is the task of the argumentation. But the structure, which was conective at first, becomes afterwards implicative. The meaning becomes its opposite and changes its order. This process is not total and, on the text, there are intermediate meanings in coexistance. When the meaning inverts its order it results in the configuration of the special kind of negation which is proper of this delusional text.