This paper presents in the context of the psychopathological event classically called pre delusional state a discussion of two subjective states, named here, respectively, pilgrimage and lodging. These two expressions refer to some period of time between the outburst of a psychotic fit and the creation of a delusional metaphor. The preliminary theoretical hypothesis is that in the passage from the pilgrim condition to the lodger one, something extremely important goes on; the theoretical clinical hypothesis is that the passage from one condition to the other, is closely related to the quality and the extension of the net of of links established by the subject.
Psychosis; psychoanalysis; mental health; new clinical procedures