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The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self

Stephen Ginn

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Summary The Quantity Theory of Insanity is a short story by the English novelist and journalist Will Self. It is one of six stories in a collection of the same name. Its central conceit is that there is ‘only a fixed proportion of sanity available to any given society at any given time’. The story is a broad satire of academia, social science and our treatment and understanding of mental disorder.

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Summary The Quantity Theory of Insanity is a short story by the English novelist and journalist Will Self. It is one of six stories in a collection of the same name. Its central conceit is that there is ‘only a fixed proportion of sanity available to any given society at any given time’. The story is a broad satire of academia, social science and our treatment and understanding of mental disorder.

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Summary The Quantity Theory of Insanity is a short story by the English novelist and journalist Will Self. It is one of six stories in a collection of the same name. Its central conceit is that there is ‘only a fixed proportion of sanity available to any given society at any given time’. The story is a broad satire of academia, social science and our treatment and understanding of mental disorder.

Key concepts: Sanity, Insanity, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sociology, Literature, Psychiatry, Art

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