The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it:… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
![“[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a53/michel-foucault-1134_desire_t-hus-one-should-not-think-that-desire-i_1660638.jpg)
