CAMINERO-SANTANGELO, Marta, The Madwoman Can't Speak

«In order to use madness as a metaphor for the liberatory potentials of language, feminist critics must utterly unmoor it from its associations with mental illness as understood and constructed by discourses ans practices both medical and popular. But if the connotation carried by the notion of madness must be completely suppressed in order for such a metaphor to work - if the word must be emptied of its meanings and provided with a entirely set of significations (in fact, an impossibility) - then why use it at all? » (2)