The Insane’s speech and insanity

Abstract

Madness is a human condition that has been understood from different perspectives throughout history, coinciding thus with the discourses dominating all kind of groups in a given epoch. In the Middle Ages, for instance, the patriarchal-religious discourse set madness from a particular perspective which converged on claim madness as a condition of vulnerability, weakness, and femininity. Eramus of Rotterdam (1969) once pointed out: The Stupidity is the one carrying truth and that is why madness is threatening. Maybe this not the only discourse the “Lunatic” during the Middle Ages responded with some Hippocratic-physician sheens this condition of the insane is dealt with inasmuch as he is given a place, an explanation, and is finally considered guilty. Therefore, the insane is a moving character pretending truth, fear, love, guilt, and as a paradox, also the innocence.