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Lisa Appignanesi, Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present
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Thursday 18 Sep 2008 (1pm)
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Tube: Charing Cross
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Drawing on learning from her own critical study — Mad, Bad and Sad: The History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present — published by Virago in February, author Lisa Appignanesi presents her thoughts on the representation of female sanity in literature and psychoanalytical discourse over the last two centuries. With a long list of examples to draw on, including Virginia Woolf’s own experiences, Charlotte Brontë’s madwoman in the attic and even Lady Macbeth, Appignanesi explores the importance of female madness to Freud and Lacan and even proposes some answers to that age-old question — is some form of mental instability a prerequisite for creative genius, whatever your gender?
