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From: Amie Barrodale <arb38@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:07:32 -0500 (EST)
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