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The English poet William Blake (1790) asserts the counterintuitive notion that “If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise” (p. 7). This may strike us as a decidedly modern psychoanalytic formulation, exemplified in techniques such as joining and following the contact function. When one is free to fully explore the nature and substance of one's personal folly or delusion, Blake and modern psychoanalysts seem to suggest, one is bound to exhaust the delusion's potency and its efficacy as a defense against reality. The Argentinian-born Parisian psychoanalyst Salomon Resnik harmonizes with Blake in his recent book, The Logics of Madness: On Infantile and Delusional Transference. Indeed, R. D. Laing, whom Resnik quotes, all but echoes Blake when he suggests that “madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.” However, Resnik is careful to go beyond Blake's sentiment to reject the implication that his patients are “fools,” reminding the reader that “the intimacy of very disturbed people who have lost at least part of their own identity demands an approach that is highly respectful.” And he cites Wilfred Bion for the idea that “complete madness does not exist as such. Some part of the personality is always preserved, and the analytic process can enable us to get in touch with it and to work through the psychotic aspects.” The approach takes as its starting point that the patient's delusional world view follows an internal logic that is perfectly clear to the individual