ONE ASPECT OF FEIGNED INSANITY

Notes on Feigned Insanity

" Edgar. While I may scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape, That ever penury, in contempt of man, Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth; Blanket my loins ; elf all my hair in knots ; And with presented nakedness out-face The winds and persecutions of the sky. The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars, who, with ...

Insanity

Naive Kinematics: One Aspect of Shape

Ways in which physical objects interact are explored, and in particular the concept of freedom is analysed. Intuitively, the fit between two shapes in a given spatial configuration is a statement about how much one shape needs to mutilated in order to be made identical to the other. The freedom of one object with respect to another specifies what motions the First object can go through without ...

Feigned Tumor of the Jaw

Emamun, a Mussalmani, aged 15, was brought to me on November 20th by her parents. They stated that upwards of a year before they had observed a small tumor near the angle of the lower jaw on the left side. It continued to increase slowly; native practitioners failed to give relief; and at last, despairing of a cure, they had brought her to me to have it removed by operation. There was a tumor o...

Images of Insanity

An examination of the way the cinema has dealt with mental illness and the introspective fascination with which it has mirrored the spirit of experimentation and fragmentation of the last decade.