CRITIQUE – Portraits of eighteen residents of a rather special institute and crazy tales. To be enjoyed without moderation.
We are warned from the first page of this Folie dans les Follies: “As honorary director of Wing B of the Institute, I certify to the reader, specialist or not in analytical-reflexive archtherapy, the accuracy of the cases presented, as well as that of the medications and therapies applied. » It turns out that we are not specialists in “analytical-reflexive archtherapy”and we discover the cases cited by Doctor H. M. Tavernier, honorary director of this psychiatric institute.
The first “boarder” Her name is Olga Wenkel, who is not just anyone since she was the architect engineer of the institute in question. Persuasive, she imposed her style “brutalist, roman and rococo” – who knows what that could mean. She imagined other projects, each more eccentric than the last, but very serious for her. “Olga often said, following Jules Renard, that intellectual life is in reality what…
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