Liberating Madness - Punishing Insanity: Soviet Hippies and the Politics of Craziness
Liberating Madness - Punishing Insanity: Soviet Hippies and the Politics of Craziness
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解放疯狂——惩罚疯狂：苏联嬉皮士和疯狂的政治
DOI：
10.1177/0022009417716755
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发表时间：
2017
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0.7
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Fürst J
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Fürst J
这篇文章着眼于苏联嬉皮士小团体和苏联当局之间的一个重要界面：疯狂的政治。和持不同政见者一样，嬉皮士经常发现自己被强行隔离在精神病院。然而，一个国家对色彩缤纷、天真无邪的花童的镇压的叙述，并没有公正地对待在疯狂的战场上进行的复杂的权力游戏。嬉皮士们利用精神分裂症的诊断容易被分发来获得军队的豁免。他们接受并助长了“疯狂”的标签，通过绝对的接受而不是抵制来颠覆官方行动。与此同时，他们害怕精神治疗带来的失控，但却重新发明了他们经常创伤的经历，成为他们身份的标志。嬉皮士和苏联精神病学之间的关系反映了多层次的纠缠，这种纠缠将苏联系统与其最难以驾驭的学科之一联系在一起。疯狂的嬉皮士政治无视简单的因循守旧和持不同政见的分类，而是突出了一个处于社会边缘的群体利用他们所生活的政治环境的方式，同时颠覆和屈服于它。
This article looks at an important interface between the small community of Soviet hippies and Soviet authorities: the politics of madness. Like dissidents, hippies often found themselves forcefully sequestered in psychiatric institutions. Yet an account of state repression against colourful, innocent flower children does not give justice to the complicated power games that were fought on the battlefield of craziness. Hippies used the ease with which diagnoses of schizophrenia were handed out to obtain exemption from the army. They embraced and fostered the label ‘crazy', subverting official actions through absolute acceptance rather than resistance. At the same time, they feared the loss of control that came with psychiatric treatment, yet re-invented their often traumatic experiences into a marker of their identity. The relationship between hippies and Soviet psychiatry reflects the multi-layered entanglement, which bound the Soviet system with one of its most unruly subjects. Hippie politics of craziness defy easy classification in conformism and dissent, instead highlighting the way in which a group at the margins of society made use of the political environment they lived in, subverting and succumbing to it at the same time.