Madness as a cultural construction. An approach to the readings of Michel Foucault and Raymond Williams

This article aims to make an approximation to the concept of madness in Michel Fou-cault, based on his work Historia de la locura en la época clásica I (2015), linked in turn to the notion of culture, as understood by Raymond Williams in his characterization of the three general categories of culture (ideal, documentary and social). From this connection between concepts, it follows that the conception of madness and all that this implies, responds to a given cultural construction, linked to a certain epoch and society