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Madness and Civilization, a history of madness, abandoned the common sense about madness. Madness is no longer a solid and stable essentialist concept, and the history of madness is no longer a historical journey to describe a madness with a solid reference. Here, madness and history are dynamic, generating and evolving, and they interact with each other. Not only is history changing, but the concept of madness itself is also changing. Foucault's history of madness, in a sense, is a history of struggle, communication, conflict and fracture. Crazy doesn't have to go alone. In this history of madness, madness is always accompanied by its relative rationality. In the crazy history, reason is always with you. It can be said that Madness and Civilization is not a history of madness, but a history of communication, fracture, struggle, dialogue, suppression and conquest between madness and reason. This is the spatial history of madness and bloodshed. Such a relationship history is doomed to crazy turmoil and swing. Foucault traced the history of the relationship between madness and reason back to the rejection of leprosy in the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, leprosy prevailed and leprosy hospitals spread all over Europe. Europe deals with leprosy patients by isolating leprosy hospitals. It is this isolation that has achieved great success and eliminated leprosy. However, the isolation and exclusion adopted by leprosy hospitals ...