Van Gogh: The Man Suicided by Society - Antonin Artaud

...That's how society strangled all those it wanted to get rid of, or wanted to protect from itself, and put them in asylums, because they refused to be accomplices to a kind of lofty swill.

...But in that case, internment is not the only weapon, and the concerted assemblage of men has other ways of undermining the wills of those it wants to break.

Aside from the trifling witchcraft of country sorcerers there are tricks of global hoodoo in which all alerted  consciousnesses participate periodically.

This is why during a war, a revolution, a hatching social upheaval, the collective conscience is questioned and questions itself, and also voices its own judgment.

It can also happen that it is aroused and rises above itself in certain outstanding individual cases.

That is why there was a collective spell put on Baudelaire, Edgar Allen Poe, Gerard de Nerval, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Holderlin and Coleridge.

There was a spell cast on Van Gogh also...


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