Home » Quote » Michel Foucault » „The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness“ „The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness“ — Michel Foucault Tags:Madness Related quotes „The constitution of madness as mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, bears witness to a rupture in a dialogue, gives the separation as already enacted, and expels from the memory all those imperfect words, of no fixed syntax, spoken falteringly, in which the exchange between madness and reason was carried out. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.“ — Michel Foucault „Humor is reason gone mad.“ — Groucho Marx „There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.“ — Sylvia Plath „True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.“ — William Golding
