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Madness (n.) sees ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠double because it is too close to the truth: once rivalry has levelled everything, the hallucination is not the double but difference.

Madness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a sacrifice of reason chosen over the sacrifice of desire — and the patient asks the doctor to sanction it with a diagnosis.

Madness (n.) gave ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Nietzsche what his thought never reached: wishing to be God, he became the victim, and lived out the identity of God and the scapegoat that he could never know.

Madness (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠both faces of the god's violence in many primitive societies: the madman is a pollution to keep at bay and also a possible source of blessings.

Madness (n.) seems ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠obscure only because it is too intelligible: we refuse to see its caricatural imitation of the model because it would show our own desire as a milder version of the same.