The Body of Insanity. I am trying, trough this communication, to give a living description of the «universe of madness», from its «planetary» and «daily life» experience, near to us in order to get a better comprehension of the «living body» and of the «body of madness». Life is geometrically, linear, curve and a laberynthine experience. To follow an adventurous experience, such as one with a group of chronic psychotic patients during three years, after working in different countries for a long time with that sort of patients becomes a difficult, but un enriching «experience of life». I hope that this paper, which is a condensation of a long article published in 1985 (in Bion and Group Psychotherapy, chapter 11 called «The Space of Madness», Routledge and Keagan, London) will be useful for the reader. It can be completed with my Italian experience (1994) in The Ring of Fire, published by Victor Schermer and Malcom Pines at Routledge, London and N. York.