Jain Sanjeev, Murthy Pratima, Sarin Alok
Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2016 Jul-Sep;58(3):342-344. doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.191999.
The backdrop of the Indian Independence offers glimpses of many 'metaphors of madness'. In this article, we explore this through a few instances, starting from 1857, around the time of the First War of Independence, to 1947, when India became an independent nation. Such metaphors have their parallels both in historical as well as in contemporary times, where instances of one man's imagination becoming another's concept of irrationality and insanity continue.
印度独立的背景展现出许多“疯狂的隐喻”。在本文中,我们将通过一些事例来探究这一点,时间跨度从1857年,即第一次独立战争前后,到1947年印度成为独立国家之时。这类隐喻在历史和当代都有类似情况,即一个人的想象成为另一个人关于非理性和精神错乱概念的事例仍在继续。