ONEIROID EXPERIENCE OCCURRING IN SERIOUS ACUTE POLYRADICULONEURITIS

This study is to present a psychopathological analysis of complex hall ucinatory symptoms - without consciousness breaking up in confusional state - occuring in patients with acute Guillain-Barre's syndrome diag nosis requiring neurological intensive care. Finally the patients expe rience an unitary and closed situation <<close to dream without being dream>>. This experience is corresponding to the semeiology of the <<o neiroid experience>> (Mayer-Gross, 1924). The <<oneiroid experience>> appears to be of syndromic nature independant of any etiological and/o r nosological classification. But its conceptualization does probably need widening : the oneiroid world appears to be a creation of a primi tive function which inserts us in the world before any science or veri fication.