[Too much or not enough in dementia].
Inside the silence with demented subjects, they suddenly name or design a present reality; they are attesting the quality of an object or its place inside space. Variable forces are always stated in an impersonal way. Nothing is announcing this testimony, nothing seems to justify it. It does not concern personal life at it's present time, does not state any promise for future, does not refer to any former times. The subject is creating the object: he says and it was. This disclosure is strictly related to prophecy which is choosing its material in the profane and ordinary language. We might be talking about inspiration, due to the fact that these revelations are appealing to an existential answer. We sometimes still have to do with such ways of thinking when they are remembering something and their sentences are relating to established facts: we are in present and past, punctual instant resuming, containing, anticipating all the others and cancelling them at the same time. It's not a question of souvenirs any more. The particular aspect of that language is more relating to onirism.
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D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D003693:Delirium / Q000523:psychology; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology
"Trop ou trop peu" dans la démence.