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Mieke Bal
June 2014
Critics Page
VISUALIZING MADNESS
A Long History of Madness
, 2012 – Present
By
Mieke Bal
and
Michelle Williams Gamaker
The “social unconscious” surfaces when a society first drives people mad through violence, then represses mad people, and puts them out of sight.
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