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SACre-D. Schizoprenia, Autism and the Myth of Creativity. An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Psychopathological Expression and its Digitalization

SACre-D is a research project funded by the Bando PRIN 2022 Direzione Generale della Ricerca del MUR Prot. 2022PFSJNW CUP J53D23008230006.

Its main aim is to investigate the double relation between “genius and madness” and “mental deviance and creativity” that constitutes a long-standing, deep categorization in our culture. This categorization has been represented frequently in extraordinarily successful movies and it emerges just as often in both everyday life and scientific and academic research. Among the various psychopathologies, schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) play a key role in this Mythology. Sacred-D project aims at showing that this identification is a form of the mythology of creativity qua madness, and madness qua creativity , which now has clear effects also within scientific research. SACre-D will reconstruct, rethink and reform the assumptions that ground a mythology of our time: the connection between creativity and madness.

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