What is the limit of reason?
According to Dr. Simão Bacamarte, the reason would be the balance of the faculties and everything coming out of this sense would be insanity.
He believed that everyone in the city was crazy for the most diverse reasons, but he accepts that the imbalance is in fact the "normal" and exemplary as far as humanity is concerned.
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Psychology student. I like philosophy and things that try to explain the human behavior
The book tells the story of Dr. Bacamarte, an alienist (the designation of psychiatrist at the time), who creates the Green House, a place to carry out unprecedented studies on the human mind, but ends up getting lost in his own madness.
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