SUL MEDESIMO E L’ALTRO. TRA FOLLIA E LETTERATURA NELLA PROSPETTIVA SEMIOTICA DI STUDI DI MICHEL FOUCAULT ON THE SAME AND THE OTHER. BETWEEN MADNESS AND LITERATURE FROM THE SEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE OF STUDIES BY MICHEL FOUCAULT

The relationship between the Self and the Other represents a leitmotiv throughout Foucault’s research. In the sixties, he certainly addressed the issue from two perspectives. The Other is the whole history of madness from the end of the Middle Ages to the limits of Freud’s early studies. The Other is in the literary writings by Sade, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Artaud, Bataille, Roussell, Blanchot, Klossowski, who are all summoned together on a philosophical scenario which ranges from surrealist theories of writing, and the work of art and first forms of structuralism in full swing.