henceforth keeps little more than a moral relationship to forbidden acts (it remains essentially linked to sexual taboos), but it is included in the universe of language prohibitions; with madness, classical confinement encloses libertinage of thought and speech, obstinacy in impiety or heterodoxy, blasphemy, witchcraft, alchemy everything in short that characterises the spoken and forbidden world of unreason; madness is the excluded language the one which against the code of language pronounces words without meaning (the 'insane', the 'imbeciles', the 'demented'), or the one which pronounces sacred words (the 'violent', the 'frenzied'), or the one which puts forbidden meanings into circulation ('libertines', the 'obstinate').