Abstract
Sometime ago, I found myself using the diagnosis of a student's depression as a critical tool of interpretation, searching for signs of mental illness in her essay that explored order and disorder in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. I realised that my reading had become a creative act, combining poem, poet, student essay and author to create, in a sense, one (un)readable text. The present paper is a reflection upon the processes of order and disorder located in a diagnosis of "madness" and the readings of writer and text this diagnosis initiated. I look to deconstruct acts of reading and diagnosis.
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