Further, he likens schizophrenics' deviant language to the prose of Rimbaud, Sartre, Beckett and Barthes. Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Paperback Januby Louis A. Sass analyzes Kafka's introversion, Baudelaire's esthetics of disdain, Alfred Jarry's robotlike persona and the loss of self suffered by Antonin Artaud, a diagnosed schizophrenic. Sass, a clinical psychologist and Rutgers professor, argues that schizophrenia and modernism display striking affinities: fragmentation, defiance of authority. This dense, startling work examines schizophrenic inauthenticity in light of the thought of Nietzsche, that champion of self-invention and the mask. While the parallels he draws often seem superficial, there is much to ponder in Sass's notion that schizophrenia's core traits are exaggerations of tendencies fostered by our culture. Louis Arnorsson Sass Madness And Modernism: Insanity In The Light Of Modern Art, Literature, And Thought Hardcover Octoby Louis Sass (Author) 24 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 60.31 9 Used from 60.31 Paperback 300.00 14 Used from 44.95 2 New from 286.69 1 Collectible from 1,470. Does the schizophrenic's chaotic inner world resemble modern art and literature? Sass, a clinical psychologist and Rutgers professor, argues that schizophrenia and modernism display striking affinities: fragmentation, defiance of authority, multiple viewpoints, self-referentiality and rejection of the external world in favor of an omnipotent self or, alternately, a total loss of self. Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Louis A.

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