From Mad in Mexico: In 1948, in his essay ” What is Literature?” ( Situations II , Gallimard, Paris), Jean Paul Sartre wrote, among other things, that “ideologies are freedom while they are being made, oppression when they are made.” This clarification about the fact that what is born as a negation of a given reality remains fixed in pre-established schemes and must find the meaning of its continuous renewal precisely in reality, so as not to become self-oppression; it is the premise on which discussions and essays are based, all of which formulate a single question: what is psychiatry?
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