On Wed, 30 Nov 1994 [log in to unmask] wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > > when I speak of madness, I am not referring to a raving maniac, or > any other culturally influenced definition of madness... > The madness I refer to is the > madness that Victor himself refers to several times... e.g. in the > ship captain's cabin when he asks if the captain shares his madness, > what I think could surely be viewed as a "mad" need for discovery > and innovation. I feel we all too easily buy into the mad=creative sales pitch whether it is expressed in its old form (Van Gogh's creativity attributed to his *mad* condition) or in its new form (watered down Foucault -- madness and creativity conflated as *transgression*.) Susan Denker [log in to unmask]