Search results for " madness"
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Spazio artistico ed espressione di libertà: volti spazi e creatività nell'opera di Filippo Bentivegna
2018
In this essay the author investigates the life and the work of F. Bentivegna, a sicilian migrants who had the power to translate the failure of a dream in an artistic expression form, thus becoming one of the exponents of the european Art Brut's artistic movement.
Motywy historiozoficzne w spektaklach Jerzego Jarockiego: Witkacy, Słowacki, Mrożek
2016
The article presents a piece of work of an excellent director of Polish theatre, Jerzy Jarocki, who was able to connect literature and historiosophy of writers whose plays were shown on a stage. He was deeply interested in the history of Russia; furthermore, he studied works of Witkacy and Sławomir Mrożek. The mentioned artists were also fascinated in eventful history of Russia. One of the last plays of Mrożek was "Love in the Crimea” which can be interpreted as a historiosophical allegory depicting history of Russian culture from the end of the Tsarist Age, through Stalinism, to capitalism. The last theatre play of Jarocki was "The Case” based on Juliusz Słowacki’s "Samuel Zborowski". It d…
Divenire minoranza, il trattamento della follia in età borbonica. L’Ospizio di Santa Teresa di Palermo (XIX secolo)
2022
Interessanti spunti riguardanti il trattamento della follia si ricavano dal contesto siciliano all’inizio del XIX secolo, periodo in cui si perfeziona il controllo sociale da parte delle istituzioni. Nello specifico, si vuole qui proporre il caso dell’Ospizio di Santa Teresa di Palermo, l’ex noviziato dei Teresiani Scalzi poco fuori le mura della città di Palermo, istituto adibito nel 1802, durante il soggiorno forzato della corte borbonica in Sicilia e il protettorato inglese, al contenimento dei cosiddetti «incurabili», cioè di qualsiasi minaccia che potesse interferire o interagire con la società sana del tempo. Interesting insights into the treatment of madness are to be gained from the…
Pietro Pisani e la Real Casa dei Matti (1824-1837)
2021
he essay reconstructs the story linked to the foundation of the Real Casa dei Matti in Palermo, whose project was entrusted in 1824 to Baron Pietro Pisani. After a first part aimed at reconstructing Pisani's biographical profile and his role in the Bourbon administrative organization chart, a second part articulates the way in which ‘moral therapy’ was developed in Sicily. The essay allows us to observe - in a perspective that considers the theoretical contexts of psychiatry and the institutions for the treatment of mental illness in Eu- rope - how the aristocrat, in a moment characterized by the first success of psychiatric medicine, ended up marginalizing the role of doctors by centralizi…