In an extraordinary example of 'art brut' and cartographic madness, Opicino simply projects his own interior world onto the maps and lands and seas. Using an inverse procedure, the society of 'précieuses' in the 17th Century would try to represent psychology using the code of geographical maps; the 'Maps of Tenderness' devised by Madeleine de Scudery show the Lake of Indifference, the Rock of Ambition and so on. The topographical horizontal relationship of distance and perspective between passions that are projected on a uniform expanse will later give way to Freud and his geological and vertical idea of depth psychology, made up of superimposed layers.
Italo Calvino
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