“Ultimately, confinement did seek to suppress madness, to eliminate from the social order a figure which did not find its place within it; the essence of confinement was not the exorcism of a danger. Confinement merely manifested what madness, in its essence, was: a manifestation of non-being; and by providing this manifestation, confinement thereby suppressed it, since it restored it to its truth as nothingness. Confinement is the practice which corresponds most exactly to madness experienced as unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reason; by confinement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing.”
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
This book delves into the societal and medical perspectives on mental illness from the 17th to the 19th centuries, examining the evolution of attitudes towards the mentally ill and the development of psychiatric practices. more
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