psychiatrist when it was invented in France to serve a certain need to fill certain buildings that had been left unoccupied because leprosy had suddenly gone into a decline. And schizophrenia was invented, so Albert claims, at that time to fill up the lepertories.
McLuhan: Wasn’t that also in the work of Michel Foucault?
Forsdale: Could be.
McLuhan: He has a history of medicine, in which he explains that the ship of fools was a ship that, when it left the port, they’d race down and put all the nuts on just as it was leaving so that they could get rid of them. There was no place to put these mad people in those days, so they put them on boats that were leaving for some other port. And
