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the dichotomy between legitimacy and illegitimacy, where it can
continue to undermine the regime's claims of legality.
Paradoxically, by appropriating a stigma and reversing its
meaning, progressing from assigned madness to self-proclaimed
madness, the "madwomen" established a successful method of public
protest. The action taken by the mothers at the Place de Mai has
thwarted one of the traps of the ideological hold of power (in this
case, military power) over a people by opening the way to a new
form of resistance. Today, the madwomen of the Place de Mai have
an institution all their own.
Coming in
PARTISAN REVIEW
• Selections from the
Memoires
of Raymond Aron
• Milan Kundera:
The Legacy of the Sleepwalkers
• Frank Kermode on the decline of the man of letters
• Diana Pinto:
Letter from Paris
• Steven Marcus on George Orwell
• John Elderfield on contemporary art and
modern memory
• Juan Goytisolo:
The Cuban Story
• Barbara Rose on Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock
• Dominique Moisi:
France and the Limits of Consensus
• Schlomo Avinieri: Letter from Israel
• Mark Shechner on Wilhelm Reich
• An enlarged fiftieth anniversary issue
