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The publication, in 1903, of «important memorable facts of a patient suffering from nerves» by Daniel Paul Schreber carries generations of readers to the most intimate juncture of a testimony that a subject can express. Drawn up during his hospitalisation, the aim of these Memoirs was to transmit to the world certain revealed «religious truths», to make known to others, alive, with body, the answer he received from the Other concerning «a fundamental ambiguity» going through his entire life. The Memoirs are not writings about delusion, but writings where the publication merges with delusion, its evolution, and represents the elegant solution to a problem of signification. In following the main themes of delusion and bringing their structure to light, Lacan, in a transference of writing to writing, remains as close as possible to the literalism of delusion, adding no sense or meaning, and thus restores reason to delusion.