foucault's concept of madness

Abstract

Our research summary focuses on Foucault’s serious philosophical reading of madness in Western history. Modern rationality" tried to drop madness in its medical sense and imagine it as a mental illness that requires treatment, but Foucault believes that madness is an autonomous model of thought and an authentic form of existence that implies aesthetic and theoretical values for man, life and the world. It is a symbolic universe, although sophisticated mental medicine will remain unknown, and madness has had a strong presence in the arts, literature, theatre, and the collective imagination of the Renaissance, until one fears that the spirit will be in its place and will be dissolved from the scene of life. Although the great story. Although the great narrative of modern times has been rooted in the history of the sovereignty of reason, the writing of the history of madness is the way in which the Western mind has recognized its ugly face and knows its long neglected aggression.