Madness and Civilization

Madness and Civilization Glossary

Alienation

Being separated from something; used here to mean madness in the sense of men who are separated from themselves, estranged from the world

Animality

Being beastly in nature

Classical Age

Foucault’s term for the period after the Renaissance and before modernity

Deranged Minds

A term for people with mental illness

Etiology

The study of the causes of a disease

Humors

Hypthosized fluids in the body that at one point were though to cause emotions and moods

Hypochondria

Unwarranted fears about one’s health

Immediate

Literally, “nothing in between”; used in psychological treatments to mean man left by himself

Juridical

Related to the law

Lazar House

A leper colony, or place to quarantine those with leprosy

Mania

Excessive excitement

Medical Personage

The doctor in charge of asylums

Melancholia

Depression

Oneiric

Related to dreams

Physiological

Related to the body

Scarcity of Coin

Widespread poverty

Stultifera Navis

Latin for Ship of Fools

Undifferentiated

Not divided into parts, like a category that hasn’t been divided into sub categories

Unreason

A category including the poor, the criminal, and the mad

Vagabond

A wanderer; literally a person experiencing homelessness