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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?
What 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, was inherent in our condition? human? That is to say our ability to represent the world and worlds to ourselves and to create works? And if madness was not the matrix of creative genius but a kind 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 in the center at the very heart of our humanity…
With Raphael Gaillard, psychiatrist for his book An ax in the head: madness and creativity published by Grasset