LA FOLLIA DELLE DONNE: LA NUDA VITA SOTTO IL MITO/WOMEN’S MADNESS: A NAKED LIFE BEYOND MYTH

Abstract

The article is a sort of story-telling about the historical, cultural and social myth of the mad women, revealing the construction of a stereotype about the behaviour of them. So, throughout the construction of the figure of the mad women, we can see that again, the price for them is a painful splitting of their own story and life. Every different behaviour from da refusal of role in the family to the open rebellion in the society is going to dealing with clinical treatment of their thought, their mind, their life. The work-in-progress of the women, from the grassroots movement all around the world to the female authors as Christa Wolf, Clarissa Pinkola Estes and so on, paved the way to realize another vision of ourselves, on the cultural, historical and scientific level.
The analyses of the myth and the archetype suggest us to come back at the origin of our history of women and re-build a collective consciousness of ourselves.

Keywords:
Myth, Split, History, Denial.