Around the question
Why are the links between madness and creativity not what we think?
Audio 48:30
Cover of the book “Un coup de ax dans la tête”, by Raphaël Gaillard.
© Grasset
By: Caroline Lachowsky
1 min
What if madness was not the matrix of genius, but a vulnerability, a risk inherent in our human condition, that is to say in our ability to create and represent the world to ourselves?
How to rethink and heal our follies?
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What are the links between madness and creativity, madness and genius, and especially between madness and humanity?
Why such a frequency of so-called mental disorders?
Why such suffering too, shared by so many human beings on Earth, in all places and at all times... And if madness, this terrible mystery that can make us lose our minds and our human identity, were inherent in our human condition ?
That is to say to our ability to represent the world and worlds to ourselves and to create works?
What if madness was not the matrix of creative genius, but a sort of counterpart of our humanity, a risk that we all run and which should encourage us to put madness and those who are said to be mad back at the center at the heart even of our humanity...
With
Raphaël Gaillard,
psychiatrist for his book
An ax in the head: madness and creativity
,
published by Grasset.
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