Locura y masturbación: La sexualidad como caudal que atraviesa la anomalía en Delirio de Laura Restrepo.

This article seeks to explore from the literary analysis, the relationship between madness and sexuality in a female character in the novel Delirio Laura Restrepo: Ilse. Based on the perception of what looks like an original “evil”: a disease nested in sex -the sister of Agustina's grandfather- that forces her to constantly masturbate; I propose that the masturbation becomes a kind of foundress disease that will leave a long legacy in the family. Sexuality becomes the main vector that runs through the anomaly. It is the main trigger and the most powerful. Also,