ABSTRACT
The psychoanalysis of psychosis started during World War I, stemming from the 'forward psychiatry' practiced among traumatized soldiers. Psychosis is assumed to be a fight against perversion, defined as the objectification of people: a fight led by modern Don Quixotes who struggle, after the fashion of their role model, to restore trust and faith in the given word and "defend maidens, protect widows, and come to the aid of orphans and those in need". Madness is a war against denial and perverted social links, waged in order to restore the given word and explore historical truths falsified for the sake of power games. This reference to war sounds politically incorrect: war is hell, everybody knows that. The battleground is psychological, for it imposes the absolute necessity of the 'companion' for survival. The patient's gift for research and psychotherapy has hit some entrenched clue on the side of the analyst, and so undoing, on both sides, the falsification of historical truths.
