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The word insanity has been associated with a state of mental derangement or craziness that goes against the will of a rational society, which tends to label a person crazy when he/she acts irrationally and incoherently. I am interested in discussing how the meaning of insanity has been misused and how often people confuse the unconscious with craziness. As we see in The White Hotel, society is usually the one that accuses one of irrationality and incoherence, causing him/her to transform into the stage of insanity. If we take insanity as some kind of reactionary behaviour or state caused by the rational oppression of a society, however, there is really no reason that one should feel insecure about his/her insanity. The White Hotel serves as an allegory that disqualifies the traditionalists-Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, and D. H. Lawrence-who constantly highlight what is visible (the symptom), and promotes a new line of psychoanalytic theorists-R. D. Laing and Jacques Lacan-who seem to be much more interested in what is invisible. The first group is mostly interested in deciphering the operation of the unconscious and therefore attempts to treat the symptom, while the new line of psychoanalysts engages in investigating what is invisible and consequently takes madness as something intrinsic.
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