ABSTRACT
Thomas A. Szasz explains that his conception of freedom is Hungarian, formed in the cultural context of a country that has always been oppressed and occupied by other countries, where freedom is essentially understood as freedom from invasion and inquisition. The idea developed by Szasz of investing Virginia Woolf with the self- sufficiency of a moral subject goes precisely in this direction. Human relationships are mediated by signs, by language; they are construed in the material of signs and of the word, the narrated word. The word is devoid of identity, generalization, affiliation, allegiance to an assemblage of some sort. Dialogue and otherness are essential characteristics of subjectivity of which signs and words are the material. Armando Verdiglione underlines the need to interrogate the mythology of madness and stress, which means to interrogate the mythology of the subject, of representation, including the representation of otherness.
