Abstract
Ionesco’s surrealism, or, more precisely, Theatre of the Absurd, is a homeopathic remedy for twentieth-century madness. It works by giving us controlled doses of the insanities that we have engendered to stimulate our own defence systems and so bring us to heal ourselves. The experiencing of Ionesco engages us in madness to bring us to sanity.
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Notes
D. Cooper, The Language of Madness (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980) p. 19.
C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (London: Flamingo, 1990) p. 166.
R. D. Laing, The Divided Self (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976) p. 44.
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Hayes, M.J. (1994). Ionesco’s Plays: A Conspiracy of the Mind. In: Docherty, B. (eds) Twentieth-Century European Drama. Insights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0_7
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