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21 November 1973

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Psychiatric Power

Part of the book series: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France ((MFL))

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WE CAN SAY THAT between 1850 and 1930 classical psychiatry reigned and functioned without too many external problems on the basis of what it considered to be, and put to work as, a true discourse. At any rate, from this discourse it deduced the need for the asylum institution as well as the need to deploy a medical power as an internal and effective law within this institution. In short, it deduced the need for an institution and a power from a supposedly true discourse.

Genealogy of “disciplinary power.” The “power of sovereignty.” The subject function in disciplinary power and in the power of sovereignty. ~ Forms of disciplinary power: army, police, apprenticeship, workshop, school. ~ Disciplinary power as “normalizing agency.” ~ Technology of disciplinary power and constitution of the “individual.” ~ Emergence of the human sciences.

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Foucault, M. (2006). 21 November 1973. In: Lagrange, J., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (eds) Psychiatric Power. Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245068_3

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