ABSTRACT
Delusion is closely connected with hallucination (Resnik 1982, 1986; França 1996), which constitutes a massive evacuation of β-elements. Considerable attention has been devoted to the aspect of mental destruction of which hallucinations are a token, but too little to their function of evacuating something that cannot be tolerated, and indeed to the fact that they also have a positive side, in that β-elements can at least thereby be discharged.
