this paper is an attempt to discuss the concept of madness and its differentcauses and functions in bessie head’s semiautobiographical novel a question ofpower. it aims to explore the multifaceted insanity of elizabeth the exiled coloredprotagonist in terms of different theories. we will see how once a devastatingtrauma turns out to be a habilitating schizophrenia. head challenges the readers’n...

Listening to Unreason: Foucault and Wittgenstein on Reason and the Unreasonable Man

Abstract: This article consists of a commentary on Derrida’s essay “To do Justice to Freud: The History Madness in the Age Psychoanalysis”, with aim tracing what cannot be re-appropriated by presuppositions Derrida/Foucault debate. By analysing question “who announces nonrecourse?”, I will explore way which writing is affected necessity and impossibility not repressing unreason. defend that Der...

It is conventionally thought impermissible to force treatment on a patient, even when his life is at stake. Following Kant or Mill, we may defend this convention either by appealing to the inviolability of autonomy, or to the benefits of treating liberty as inviolable, subject only to considerations of harm to others. In both cases, an exception might be made for mental illness. For Kant, auton...