"Fear in the face of the absolute limit of death turns inward in a continuous irony; man disarms it in advance, making it the object of derision by giving it an everyday, tamed form, by constantly renewing it in the spectacle of life, by scattering it througout the vices, the difficulties, and absurdities of all men.
Deaths annihilation is no longer anything because it was already everything, because life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. The head that will become a skull is already empty. Madness is the déja-vu of death. From the vain mask to the corpse, the same smile persitst. But when the madman laughs, he already laughs with the laugh of death; the lunatic, anticipating the macabre, has disarmed it.
The substitution of the theme of madness for that of death does not mark a break, but rather a torsion within the same anxiety. What is in question is still the nothingness of existence; but this nothingness is no longer considered an external, final term, both threat and conclusion; it is experienced from within as the continuous and constant form of existence..."
This has been flagged as spam show
"Fear in the face of the absolute limit of death turns inward in a continuous irony; man disarms it in advance, making it the object of derision by giving it an everyday, tamed form, by constantly renewing it in the spectacle of life, by scattering it througout the vices, the difficulties, and absurdities of all men.
schizophreniaform 2 years ago
Deaths annihilation is no longer anything because it was already everything, because life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells. The head that will become a skull is already empty. Madness is the déja-vu of death. From the vain mask to the corpse, the same smile persitst. But when the madman laughs, he already laughs with the laugh of death; the lunatic, anticipating the macabre, has disarmed it.
schizophreniaform 2 years ago
The substitution of the theme of madness for that of death does not mark a break, but rather a torsion within the same anxiety. What is in question is still the nothingness of existence; but this nothingness is no longer considered an external, final term, both threat and conclusion; it is experienced from within as the continuous and constant form of existence..."
Foucault, Madness and Civilization.
schizophreniaform 2 years ago
Comment removed
schizophreniaform 2 years ago