Some reflections on madness and culture in the post-war world.
This article examines the treatment of madness as a theme in drama, opera and films, concentrating its attention for the most part on the period between World War II and the 1980s. These were the years in which psychoanalysis dominated psychiatry in the USA, and so Freud's influence in the broader culture forms the central though not the sole focus of the analysis.
University of California, San Diego ascull@ucsd.edu.
Andrew
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Culture; Freud; drama; films; madness; opera; psychoanalysis