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Through a neoteric methodology (speculative ethnography), we analyze the transmedia worldbuilding of the Mad Max franchise as a form of "Ozploitation." This post-apocalyptic rural sci-fi series exploits culturally specific fears generated from Australia's colonial past. Mad Max is a popular imagining of the Australian eschaton and its aftermath, a collective national nightmare where near-future Australia—"Maxtralia"—plummets into the savagery invented by generations of colonialist discourse. "Maximum madness," the retrogressive technological, religious, and socioeconomic wasteland culture for which the series is known, signifies a Western reproach to indigeneity and locative culture, perpetuating attitudes of voyeuristic excitement towards primitivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The anonymous author of Chrestienne Instruction (1551)-a Protestant pastor, likely a cover for Claude Monier-was determined to extirpate any form of dance from Lyon. He considered dance to be a form of commerce and condemned it for theological, moral, social, and even psychological reasons, conflating it with trance and hysteria. Despite references to scripture, his case breaks down when he closes his work with a pastiche of a dance tune. As a result, the anathema he heaps on dance reveals the fanaticism of a preacher more concerned with subjecting his flock to his injunctions than with respecting the humanist ideals of his time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The history of madness remains one of the most fascinating and contested fields in modern social history. For several decades, scholarship has focussed on analysing the rise of the lunatic asylum and the new profession of psychiatry that was forged within its walls. Individuals diagnosed as insane were largely considered passive victims of social forces beyond their control. However, a new generation of scholarship has sought to de-centre the asylum and reconceptualise the 'mad' as historical actors with agency who had troubled lives outside of the formal institution. This article reflects on some major themes in the English-language historiography of madness over the last forty years, at the same time placing some Australian scholarship within that wider context throughout the narrative and in references. It highlights how, paradoxically, histories of the lunatic asylum have provided new insights into extramural care, the persistence of non-medical discourses about insanity, and the subjective experiences of the insane. Rather than 'out of sight and out of mind' – an historical topic resting on the periphery of modern social history – this new literature on the history of madness and the asylum illustrates how psychological distress was a mainstream social problem that upended family relations and profoundly disrupted community life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public engagement is increasingly seen as an expected part of the armoury of the twenty-first century academic. With increased scrutiny on the humanities, stemming from a neo-liberal critique of their value, it appears to offer a relatively straightforward opportunity to demonstrate the real-world application of research beyond the ivory towers of academia. For historians of madness and mental ill health, the links between their findings and the issues faced by service-users in the here and now are clear. This article, however, offers a critical reflection of both the challenges and opportunities of partnership working. Starting with examples of the longer-term willingness of academics to engage with a wider public, co-produced initiatives from Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are used to examine the changing shape of academic study and how that aligns with trends in public history, museum development and public policy. The article suggests a series of methodological and theoretical interventions in light of decades of service-user and lived experience engagement with historical research and writing. It provides an overview of the often hidden and overlooked challenges of partnership working, including the place of patient and service user 'voice', and touches on the ethical implications of doing so. Rather than seeing potential partners as 'end users of research', we highlight the learning opportunities that arise from new ways of working, as well as emphasising the significant contribution that historical knowledge and expertise can bring to co-produced outputs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1899, the Australian colonies sent military contingents to South Africa to support the British in fighting the Boer enemy. While some questioned the justice of the conflict, the public reaction to the war was akin to a 'national insanity'. British victories in the first half of the war, particularly the relief of Mafeking in May 1900, saw noisy jingo crowds filling the streets of capital cities in celebration, resulting in public drunkenness and damage to property, behaviour typically deemed 'mad'. Colonial society, faced with increases in lunacy rates, was not only in the process of comprehending madness, but also ideas about Australian nationalism in the period approaching Federation of 1901. These factors, added to popular involvement in a British war in South Africa, shaped political, police and press responses to the new manifestation of jingoism. The press, a site of both the production and advancement of public conceptions of insanity, drew upon the social language of madness to communicate the acceptability or unacceptability of specific jingoistic behaviour. This paper examines the metaphorical use of mad vocabularies by the colonial press during this period to explore the 'arbitrary boundary' between madness and sanity in Federation era Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This short story is based on Avril - a phantom character from the 2015 novel. The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson. Focusing on Avril, who largely is a silent character, was an intentional literary approach that was inspired by the iconic Caribbean book Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Like Wide Sargasso Sea, Avril's Voice also focuses on a Caribbean woman who is experiencing an undisclosed mental illness. By amplifying Avril's voice here, we seek to make space to centre her narrative and provide a first-hand description of her mental health challenges and intersecting family issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its prevalent usage within soca music, little scholarly literature has explored how sonic, lyrical and embodied representations of dis/ability permeate throughout the genre to perform critical genealogies of transgressive Caribbean gender practices. In this article I interrogate the dissemination and deployment of madness as metaphor in soca performance, particularly through embodiments of Carnivalesque sensibilities and the pedagogies of nonnormativity they articulate. Such performances, I argue, position soca as an inherently "mad music" where disruptive ontological methodologies of speaking, sounding, and embodying cultural resistance have been cultivated through explorations of disability. These representations and methods of using such "mad archives" in projects of self-making, and more specifically Afro-Caribbean masculinity, is explored through the "madman" personae (c. 2003) of Machel Montano and recent soca star Uncle Ellis. Simultaneously, I critique these representations for the ways they perpetuate mental health stigma and ableism in the realms of Caribbean popular culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We are beholden to the postmodernists for their unwavering fidelity to Virginia Woolf's legacy and the resultant popularity it continues to enjoy. This should no longer be the case. As postmodernism's import is increasingly outflanked by the enterprises of Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, and the resuscitated Hegel, we ought to rescue Woolf not only from the poststructuralists, but also from herself. I claim that another reading of Woolf is overdue, one which breaks with the general consensus. Such a reading is not a disproving of the latter, but rather an illumination of its concealed underside which it vehemently disavows. I use the philosophy of Slavoj Žižek to illuminate this underside in Woolf's Orlando, and demonstrate how Woolf shares more with Hegel and Descartes than Deleuze and his disciples. Rather than reading Woolf as a champion of connection, affectivity, and desire, we ought to read her as a writer of abstraction, negativity, and failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Foucault's participation in the 1954 carnival of the mad at an asylum in Switzerland marked the beginning of his critical reflections on the origins of psychology. The event revealed a paradox at the heart of psychology to Foucault, for here was an asylum known for its progressive method and groundbreaking scientific research that was somehow still exhibiting traces of a medieval conception of madness. Using the cultural expression of this carnival as a starting place, this paper goes beyond carnival costumes to uncover the historical structures underneath the discipline of modern psychology. Drawing on Foucault's earliest works in psychology, his 1954 Mental Illness and Personality, his 1954 "Dream, Existence and Imagination," his 1957 "Scientific Research and Psychology" and briefly his 1961 History of Madness, I will describe the discrepancy between the theory of modern psychology, which finds its heritage in the methods of modern science, and the practice of modern psychology, which finds its heritage in the classical age. I will argue that this division helps make sense of unexplained psychological phenomena, as seen in general practices related to artistic expression, and individual experiences, as seen in the presence of guilt and the resistance to medical diagnosis in patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This story is about a government, which considered the management of madness not a medical issue but a matter of law and order. and a 64 years old official who became the director of a madhouse having no medical nor managing expertise in mental disease, but just humanity and dedication. But most of all it's the story Of their attempt to project an image of themselves and of what they had done. that turned out in something completely different: a literary myth which went sofar to reach the pen of Aterandre Dumas and Edgar Allan Poe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There have been a number of organised discussions about the media in Slovakia in recent times. This study analyses them to find answers to several research questions. One question is: who took part in the discussions about the media in the period this analysis focused on in 2018? Interviews with the organisers of these discussions offered a partial answer to the question of what kind of discursive strategies they used in determining the hegemonic discourse that emerges from these discussions. The article's theoretical starting point is Foucault's question about 'Who is speaking?' as an important element of the archaeology of knowledge. The analysis was conducted by counting the frequency of public normative official affiliations the guests and moderators had in the discussions and performing a qualitative content analysis of the interviews carried out with the organisers. The analysis revealed that most of the participants were politically centrist subjects from centrist parties, the liberal and conservative media, and non-governmental organisations critical of the extremes in the media landscape. The discursive strategies analysed included procedures of exclusion based on the distinction between reason and madness, media routine, and the valuing of objectivity and respect toward the deceased over balance. However, balance is still an acknowledged value and could become the basis for more plural discussions, given that the respondents claimed that they have no problem with differences of opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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'Folly' is often used as an umbrella term for Renaissance representations both of 'idiocy' and madness, although early modern legislation and medicine described crucial differences between the two conditions. Shakespeare sometimes stages their liminality by having fools interact with lunatics, as in Twelfth Night and in King Lear. By drawing in particular from socio-legal and scientific ideas of the early modern period, the present article considers some of these interactions to discuss the ways in which fools as intellectually disabled individuals are separated from madmen as mentally ill, while also assessing how occasionally 'idiocy' borders into madness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the structural and thematic parallels between Foucault's History of Madness and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Drawing upon Foucault's notion of "experience, " the article argues that the formal designs of both texts "fold" in remarkably similar ways, directly taking the reader's perspective into account in their navigation of the limits between rhetorical and phenomenal worlds. As these texts conclude, such an unfolding of the limits of one s perspective is the shared experience of both madness and the comic theatre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We hypothesize that Moon-associated signals, recently linked to rapid cycling bipolar disorder, may have triggered extremely rare instances of extreme manic and aggressive behaviour that may be compatible with the folklore of the werewolf. Very limited literature on instances of clinical lycanthropy or violent/manic/madness behaviour in association with the Moon may be due to very rare lycanthropic psychosis and not knowing which signal(s) could determine Moon-mood associations. Mechanistically, lunar effects related to bipolar disorder, mood changes, and psychosis could involve either, or a combination, of the following: (i) some as of yet non-measurable signal or undefined geoelectric/geomagnetic receptor or higher sensitivity in some humans, (ii) Moonlight affecting sleep and/or circadian rhythm, (iii) perinatal imprinting of susceptibility, (iv) lunar-periodic growth, and subsequent consumption, of or exposure to psychotropic agents. Importantly, remarkable recent studies (2018) suggest that links between some Moon cycles and bipolar disorder are conceivable. Further observations suggest a role for periodic changes in lunar distances in combination with the Earth and Sun positions. Targeted research could use insight from astrophysicists. If causal links between Moon signals and mood were corroborated, sufferers may benefit from improved disease understanding. Herein, we systematically review the literature and synthesize the evidence for and against the hypothesis. The werewolf myth could become another instance of folklore popularizing biological variation worthy of investigation such as the book characters created by the psychiatrist Hoffmann in 1845 as a Christmas present for his son; namely, 'Struwelpeter' and 'Zappel-Philipp' (shock-headed Peter and fidgety-Philipp): Their conspicuous characteristics have since been linked to genetic uncombable hair syndrome and ADHD, respectively. Overall, rather than dismissing (seemingly) trivial and uncertain concepts as 'just folklore', scientists should grapple with the roots, causes, and significance of traditions and tales, including the werewolf legend. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As the genre of farce more generally, Shakespeare’s early farce The Comedy of Errors is often dismissed as superficial because of its farcical elements, or its farcical nature is downplayed by well-meaning critics. In this essay, I argue that it is precisely in its farcical superficiality that the play unfolds sceptical philosophical potential. Employing concepts developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, I try to show how this farce, in comically unsettling the very foundations of human language, culture and identity, gestures at uncomfortable truths about the fundamental conventionality of human nature and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article centers on the experiences of Jodh Singh, a marginal figure in the history of the Ghadar movement, who exists as the sum of a few documents in official archives and the media record of the Hindu-German conspiracy trial of 1917-18 in which he served as witness. Based on a close reading of these materials, at the center of which is an official account of the insanity of Singh, I undertake an analysis of discourses of patriotism and paranoia in the archive. Making a case for viewing Singh as exemplifying the condition of subalternity, I describe how the juridical-legal-medical framework of the American state that condemns Singh is based on anxieties about madness, foreignness, and sexuality as threatening to the legitimacy of the state. I also argue that Jodh Singh's story offers the basis of a critique of the idea of the Ghadar Party as an exemplar of cosmopolitan values and solidarity, given that Ghadar discourse shares some assumptions with the state apparatus that has judged Singh as defective, guilty, and diseased. In undertaking such a reading, the article illustrates how the story of Jodh Singh troubles the distinction between patriotism and paranoia as it exists in the imagination of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I examine Wittgenstein's appeals to madness in On Certainty in light of Foucault's Histoire de la folie. A close look at these works, usually conceived as disparate, belonging to entirely different schools of thought, reveals they actually have much in common. Both can be read as investigations into the grounds of reason, and while they offer quite different and distinct perspectives on the matter, they share some central insights. In both we find that the boundaries of reason are not only vague but also largely founded upon the relations - social in Foucault, sociolinguistic in Wittgenstein - between the reasonable person and the unreasonable person. Both perspectives reveal a curious state of affairs whereby the reasonable person is the one who dominates discourse, and yet, in his claim for reason, remains forever dependent upon the unreasonable person and his rejection. The pressing question triggered by Foucault's account is whether the boundary between reason and unreason is at all necessary. This undermines Wittgenstein's thesis that this boundary is a matter of logical necessity upon which discourse depends. I flesh this point out in the paper also by examining the differences in Wittgenstein's and Foucault's treatments of Descartes' Meditations. I conclude that Wittgenstein's criticism of Cartesian skepticism presented in On Certainty loses much of its fortitude once examined in light of Foucault's Histoire de la folie. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To become clear, the concept of madness, the hows and whys that follow the recognition of it needs a discerning view. Thereupon, this research is going to study the madness of the main character of the short story "Diary of a Madman" written by Nikolai Gogol in which he meticulously illustrates how a madman's mind operates. A pivotal concept to be dealt with is the power of unconscious, which according to Sigmund Freud has a considerable influence on the psychic system. Freud maintains that if the Ego is not able to keep a balance between its demands and the unconscious desires, Psychosis happens. In madman's case, it is Schizophrenia. The madman shows abnormalities like hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and disorganized behavior which are all symptoms of schizophrenia. Each symptom will be discussed in detail through the study. Another issue which is worth being elucidated is the madman's place in Lacanian Orders. Jacques Lacan depicts psyche's development in three orders or phases: The Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic. In this research the focus will be on the imaginary order as the madman shows signs of being stuck in this phase without any positive movement toward the next, the symbolic. According to Lacan, psychosis is the consequence of the incapability in entering the symbolic order. Accordingly, this research will study the madman's psychosis and his situation in the psychic world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The turn of the nineteenth century saw an increase in the insanity defence and a language of mental aberration in Victoria's capital trials. Historians have outlined the judicial development of the insanity defence in Australia, yet little attention has been paid to how defences of insanity operated in the practice of the courtroom. A study of 126 capital cases tried in Victoria between 1890 and 1935 provides an indication of how defendants argued insanity, how this plea was received in the courtroom, and how claims to insanity could influence sentencing outcomes. This study will demonstrate the tensions between doctors and lawmakers regarding how insanity and responsibility were determined, as well as how public conceptualisations of mental illness influenced these discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keywords: Shakespeare; King Lear; blindness; madness; performance; embodiment; literary disability studies EN Shakespeare King Lear blindness madness performance embodiment literary disability studies N.PAG N.PAG 1 06/22/23 20230701 NES 230701 Charles Lamb, with the crotchety elitism only nineteenth-century England could engender, famously declared Lear "essentially impossible to be represented on a stage" (para. Early modern disability studies attends to embodiedness through analysis of disability's physical components, such as illness and impairment, as well as analysis of its constructedness, through the social and cultural conditions that shape impaired bodies' experiences of disability. If drama needs bodies to stage disability, and embodying disability changes the way disability functions in a play, what of how audiences receive and interpret those bodies? Borrowing Merri Lisa Johnson and Robert McRuer's definition of " I being with and near i disability, thinking through disabled sensations and situations", she argues that I Lear i 's characters, and by extension the audience, gain disability knowledge through their proximities to disability ("'Known and Feeling Sorrows'" 164, italics original). A number of impairments and disabilities manifest audibly, such as a stutter or vocal tics, and more broadly, as Lear and Edgar demonstrate, those with mental illness or intellectual impairment may not always speak rationally or within conventional social scripts. [Extracted from the article]

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Theatre imagery has become almost an aphorism, has its occurrence been traced out even in plays belonging to the pre - Shakespearean era. The content for feigned madness has ancient roots. In the renaissance, the feigned madness was more than really the stuff of comic duplicity or confusion. The theatre imagery in Shakespeare's Hamlet is a kind of perceptual lens through which we may observe and analyze the conduct of the character and their tragic predicaments. Hamlet is often described as tragedy dominated by the idea of the plays. Feigned madness becomes a powerful metaphor attached to the theatre imagery. "To be or not to be" begins one of the most famous soliloquies of all time by an author William Shakespeare in his play, Hamlet. There are several different motifs that are relayed within Hamlet's story. These motifs include death, obsession and betrayal all of which contribute to reassure Hamlet's madness. In every motif, the audience can state on a universal level both back in the day and in present times as death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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According to the WHO, 90 % of suicides are related to mental health issues. However associating suicide to an altered state of mind is not that simple. In Quebec for instance, History has shown us that this association o?ten goes beyond psychiatric considerations. Without taking a stand on this issue, our analysis of suicide notes nonetheless starts off from the principle that, as soon as words are commied to paper in relation to one's suicide, this narrative raises the prospect of a future where the author wishes to remain an actor in his or her own life and whatever is to come next. The majority of the notes from our sample explicitly detail the reasons for the upcoming death. Nevertheless, in 91 % of files, the coroner concludes that the act was commied by a person out of mind. Even when the suicide explicitly stated that it is not the case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using Michel Foucault’s lectures on “Psychiatric power” as its starting point, this article analyzes the book Simulación de la locura (The simulation of madness), published in 1903 by the Argentine psychiatrist José Ingenieros. Foucault argues that the problem of simulation permeates the entire history of modern psychiatry. After initial analysis of José Ingenieros’s references to the question of simulation in the struggle for existence, the issue of simulation in pathological states in general is examined, and lastly the simulation of madness and the problem of degeneration. Ingenieros participates in the epistemological and political struggle that took place between experts-psychiatrists and simulators over the question of truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article studies the discourses about curability constructed by Spanish mental health practitioners in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. While in the 1870s and 1880s the predominant discourse promoted by doctors attached to private institutions was extremely optimistic, it subsequently changed and became more pessimistic regarding treatment outcomes. However, given phrenopathists’ professional needs, they continued to profess more or less unshakeable confidence in the therapeutic abilities of psychiatry. The reception of new nosologies, such as Kraepelin’s, depended in part on contemporary mental health practitioners’ stance on curability and was accompanied by ambivalence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Identified as the core of human subjectivity, madness and the shattered self are among the issues which Cormac McCarthy represents in his brilliant though terrifying narrative The Road. This study attempts to address the representation of subjectivity's faith and reason in the face of physical and mental struggles in his novel. Moreover, the relation that subjectivity has to the Big Other will be analyzed under Žižekian paradigms. In the pre-Kantian era, the human subject was to struggle against an extremity of madness so as to redeem itself a state of reason. But since Kant proposed that the core of subject/ivity can be madness itself, the struggles represented in McCarthy's novel have been examined as significant events that show this core of inconsistency and madness. To do so, the present study analyzes his text to show the inconsistency of the subject/ivity of his characters along with the role of reason/madness and their relations to faith in the narrative. Particularly, it would be fruitful to focus on the contribution of what Žižek calls the "Light of Reason" and its fluctuations/fragmentations. The point opposite to this Light would be the Dark of the world, a dire night in which that mad center of human subjectivity could emerge into the novel's events. For this purpose, the paper will elaborate more thoroughly on Derrida's and Žižek's viewpoints regarding Enlightenment and subjectivity. Of the main consideration in McCarthy's text is deciding about life and death and about the force that compels his protagonists to keep fighting for their survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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