Re: foucault-digest V2 #44

I am reading through _Madness and Civilization_ for the first time, and I
was wondering if anyone could address the significance of locating madness
in the image. Several passages stand out in particular:

p.35 of Vintage edition:
"In this extravaganza, the theater develops its truth, which is illusion.
Which is, in the strict sense, madness."

p.94
" . . . so madness will begin only in the act which gives the value of
truth to the image."

and also, section 2 of chapter VI -- on the iamge as treatment.

Anyway, is it fair to say that madness is located in _representation_. If
so, what are the repercussions of this assertion.

--Amie




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