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Michel Foucault · 1961
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What this book knows
Madness was not discovered but invented — confinement, not medicine, made the mad who they are.
obedience-and-authority
A nice and hallowed tradition has labeled Tuke and Pinel as the saviors of the mentally ill, but the truth…
MC-RC-003Work is deprived of any productive value; it is imposed only as a moral rule; a limitation of liberty, a submission to order.
MC-RC-192The doctor's intervention is not made by virtue of medical skill; he has authority in the asylum as a wise man, a juridical and moral guarantee.
MC-RC-209self-and-identity
Sadism appears at the very moment that unreason, confined for over a century and reduced to silence, reappears as language and desire.
MC-RC-164shame
It denounces celibacy, debauchery, misconduct, and extreme perversity of habits as causes of the most inveterate and incurable insanity.
MC-RC-200Madness must be liberated from that system so that it will be free to slough off its savage freedom and welcome the demands of nature.
MC-RC-1546 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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