Since Freud's inaugural essay (1911) about the Memoirs of D. P. Schreber there have been a wealth of theories and a proliferation of speculative constructions on the structure of this paranoiac delusion. Nonetheless, the central enigmatic theme of soul murder is unresolved still. The first chapters of the Memoirs, entirely devoted to a systematic exposition of this nodal delusional metaphor (Lacan, 1977, p. 220) are written in a strange idiom, still undeciphered. Paradoxically, most of all previous research dealt to a far greater degree with the subsequent delusional themes of unmanning and transsexualization. The relation between the first and the latter