...ceased to be the sign of another world; ... it became the paradoxical manifestation of non-being.... Confinement is the practice which corresponds most...unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reason; by confinement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing. (115-16) The madhouse became the domain, not...

...what madness, in its essence, was: a manifestation of non-being; and by providing this manifestation, confinement thereby suppressed it, since it restored...unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reason; by confinement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing. That is, on one hand madness is immediately...

...what madness, in its essence, was: a manifestation of non-being,- and by providing this manifestation, confinement thereby suppressed it, since it restored...experienced as unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reasoni by confinement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing. That is,... madness is immediately perceived...

...imprisoned "as a vagrant". What Michel Foucault says about confinement of madmen, might be relevant here: Confinement is the practice which corresponds most...unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reason, by confinement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing. That is, on the one hand, madness is immediately...

...History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Vintage, 1988), 107-16. "Confinement is the practice which corresponds most...unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reason; by confinement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing" (116). The Gothic novel of the late eighteenth...

...a place outside the social and outside language, a place characterized by conf1nement: "Conf1nement is the practice which corresponds most exactly to...unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reason; by conf1nement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing."2 Madness becomes a sign of an age, splitting...