The greatest psychiatrists in history have always been Spanish novelists and writers, from Cervantes to Leopoldo Alas, and above all Quevedo. Don Quixote, Dreams, and La Regenta do not allow us to lie.
The best patients, in turn, have been foreign novelists and German philosophers, whose work likewise does not allow us to deny the truth of the historical calamities they set in motion—from the Reformers to the Enlightenment, from Kant to Nietzsche and from Freud to Heidegger.
They are all on the couch of Spanish literature. Guess who is now in the waiting room.
Jesús G. Maestro