“I am Crazy”
Fou/ mad
It frequently occurs to the amorous subject that he is or is going mad.
It frequently occurs to the amorous subject that he is or is going mad.
1. I am mad to
be in love, I am not mad to be able to say so, I double my image: insane in my
own eyes (I Know my delirium), simply unreasonable in the eyes of someone else,
to whom I quite sanely describe my madness: conscious of this madness,
sustaining a discourse upon it.
[…]
2. Every lover
is mad, we are told. But can we imagine a madman in love? Never – I am entitled
only to an impoverished, incomplete, metaphorical
madness: love drives me nearly mad,
but I do not communicate with the supernatural, there is nothing of the sacred
within me; my madness, a mere irrationality, is dim, even invisible; besides, it
is entirely recuperated by the culture: it frightens no one. (Yet it is in the
amorous state that certain rational subjects suddenly realize that madness is
very close at hand, quite possible: a madness in which love itself would
founder.)
-Roland Barthes
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