The birth of psychiatry
completed exclusion or failed inclusion?The birth of psychiatry
completed exclusion or failed inclusion?Samenvatting
Michel Foucault’s analysis of psychiatry´s birth around 1800 is well known. The French philosopherreversed the myth of PhilippePinel and William Tuke asliberatorsof the mad in the New Era after the French revolution: instead of a starting liberation we should consider it a completed elimination. The exclusion of madness from the realm of Reason is fulfilled. Insanity is silenced. From this moment on ‘the life of unreason no longer manifests itself except in the lightningflash of works such as those of Hölderlin, of Nerval, of Nietzsche,or of Artaud’, Foucault writes. And: ‘Sade's calm, patient language also gathers up the final words of unreason and also gives them, for the future, a remoter meaning.’
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Organisatie | De Haagse Hogeschool |
Afdeling | Faculteit IT & Design |
Lectoraat | Lectoraat Filosofie en Beroepspraktijk |
Datum | 2018-11 |
Type | Conferentiebijdrage |
Taal | Engels |