Francoise Davoine has been investigating psychotic phenomena and trauma for over thirty years in collaboration with Jean-Max Gaudilliere. In this book she draws on her literary background to take the reader on a fascinating voyage with an unexpected but most helpful guide: Don Quixote. In her work Davoine approaches madness not as a symptom but rather as a place the place where the symbolic order and the social link have ruptured. She sees the psychotic as a seeker engaged in a form of exploration into the nature and history of this place. This brings us to the seeker Don Quixote. Davoine takes the reader into the world of the knight-errant to describe his adventures in a fascinating new light. Cervantes the survivor of war trauma captivity and all manner of misfortunes created this hero first and foremost so that the tale be told. Language: English