Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/25 In Nietzsche, Bataille, Laing, Lacan, Foucault, Žižek and more, madness is freedom’s shadow, its "most faithful companion". Yet in each it hits a ceiling: what life, thought, or the symbolic can bear. Nietzsche’s fate marks the most unsettling emblem of that horizon.

Copy of tweet here: “Far from being an ‘insult’ to freedom, madness is freedom’s most faithful companion, following its every move like a shadow. Not only can man’s being not be understood without madness, but it would not be man’s being if it did not bear madness … within itself as the limit of his freedom.” Jacques Lacan, Écrits
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Copy of tweet here: “Far from being an ‘insult’ to freedom, madness is freedom’s most faithful companion, following its every move like a shadow. Not only can man’s being not be understood without madness, but it would not be man’s being if it did not bear madness … within itself as the limit of his freedom.” Jacques Lacan, Écrits