What is madness?Is madness a construct of society defined in the inability to seek the highest point of intelligence on a scientific scale? If Intelligence is perceived as a relative term, then what about the highest points of normality or for that matter abnormality? Different people transgress social norms but why is it that a mad man is necessarily the one enclosed within a mental institution? If abnormality is defined as transgression from socially accepted norms of normality, then what about revolutionaries, radical philosophers or to be more succinct the many attempts of artists to project a post-postmodern readings of the world. Is one who deviates from social norms mad or rebellious or simply disobedient?And is it possible to understand abnormality and normality as exclusive concepts? Can reason be free of the presence of fancy?The human mind essentially visualizes and visualization involves a definite element of imagination. Why is fear used both to discipline a child making its formal entry into society and to exercise the power of the medical gaze?What explains the relative limits within which the medical gaze may state the return to normality after the psychoanalytical couch?
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