Giorgio de Chirico, The Seer, 1915 A selection from Louis Sass's Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought (1992).[Work in Progress] Prologue: The Sleep of ReasonThe madman is a protean figure in the Western imagination... . He has been thought of as a wildman and a beast, as a child and a simpleton, as a waking dreamer, as a prophet in the grip
