Michel Foucault

Abnormal

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Produktbeschreibung

From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who "resemble their crime before they commit it." Building on the themes of societal self-defense in "Society Must Be Defended," Foucault shows how and why defining "abnormality" and "normality" were prerogatives of power in the nineteenth century. The College de France lectures add immeasurably to our appreciation of Foucault's work and offer a unique window into his thinking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780312424053
• ISBN-10: 0312424051
• Artikelnr.: 21703286

Autorenporträt

Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana
Introduction: Arnold I. Davidson
One: 8 January 1975
Expert psychiatric opinion in penal cases. - What kind of discourse is the
discourse of expert psychiatric opinion? - Discourses of truth and
discourses that make one laugh. - Legal proof in eighteenth-century
criminal law. - The reformers. - The principle of profound conviction. -
Extenuating circumstances. - The relationship between truth and justice. -
The grotesque in the mechanism of power. - The psychological-moral double
of the offense. - Expert opinion shows how the individual already resembles
his crime before he has committed it. - The emergence of the power of
normalization.
Two: 15 January 1975
Madness and crime. - Perversity and puerility. - The dangerous individual.
- The psychiatric expert can only have the character of Ubu. - The
epistemological level of psychiatry and its regression in expert
medico-legal opinion. - End of the antagonistic relationship between
medical power and judicial power. - Expert opinion and abnormal individuals
(les anormaux). - Criticism of the notion of repression. - Exclusion of
lepers and inclusion of plague victims. - Invention of positive
technologies of power. - The normal and the pathological.
Three: 22 January 1975
Three figures that constitute the domain of abnormality: the human monster,
the individual to be corrected, the masturbating child. - The sexual
monster brings together the monstrous individual and the sexual deviant. -
Historical review of the three figures. - Reversal of their historical
importance. - Sacred embryology and the juridico-biological theory of the
monster. - Siamese twins. - Hermaphrodites: minor cases. - The Marie
Lemarcis case. - The Anne Grandjean cases.
Four: 29 January 1975
The moral monster. - Crime in classical law. - The spectacle of public
torture and execution (la supplice). - Transformation of the mechanisms of
power. - Disappearance of the ritual expenditure of punitive power. - The
pathological nature of criminality. - The political monster: Louis XVI and
Marie-Antoinette. - The monster in Jacobin literature (the tyrant) and
anti-Jacobin literature (the rebellious people). - Incest and cannibalism.
Five: 5 February 1975
In the land of the ogres. - Transition from the monster to the abnormal (
l'anormal). - The three great founding monsters of criminal psychiatry. -
Medical power and judicial power with regard to the notion of the absence
of interest. - The institutionalization of psychiatry as a specialized
branch of public hygiene and a particular domain of social protection. -
Codification of madness as social danger. - The motiveless crime (crime
sans raison) and the tests of the enthronement of psychiatry. - The
Henriette Cornier case. - The discovery of the instincts.
Six: 12 February 1975
Instinct as grid of intelligibility of motiveless crime and of crime that
cannot be punished. - Extension of psychiatric knowledge and power on the
basis of the problematization of instinct. - The 1838 law and the role
claimed by psychiatry in public security. - Psychiatry and administration
regulation, the demand for psychiatry by the family, and the constitution
of a psychiatric-political discrimination between individuals. - The
voluntary-involuntary axis, the instinctive and the automatic. - The
explosive of the symptomatological field. - Psychiatry becomes science and
technique of abnormal individuals. - The abnormal: a huge domain of
intervention.
Seven: 19 February 1975
The problem of sexuality runs through the field of abnormality. - The old
Christian rituals of confession. - From the confession according to a
tariff to the sacrament of penance. Development of the pastoral. - Louis
Habert's Pratique du sacrament de pénitence and Charles Borromée's (Carlo
Borromeo) Instructions aux confesseurs. - From the confession to spiritual
direction. - The double discursive filter of life in the confession. -
Confession after the Council of Trent. - The sixth commandment: models of
questioning according to Pierre Milhard and Louis Habert. - Appearance of
the body of pleasure and desire in penitential and spiritual practices.
Eight: 26 February 1975
A new procedure of examination: the body discredited as flesh and the body
blamed through the flesh. - Spiritual direction, the development of
Catholic mysticism, and the phenomenon of possession. - Distinction between
possession and witchcraft. - The possessions of Loudon. - Convulsion as the
plastic and visible form of the struggle in the body of the processed. -
The problem of the possessed and their convulsions does not belong to the
history of illness. - The anti-convulsives: stylistic modulation of the
confession and spiritual direction; appeal to medicine; recourse to
disciplinary and educational systems of the seventeenth century. -
Convulsion as neurological model of mental illness.
Nine: 5 March 1975
The problem of masturbation between the Christian discourse of the flesh
and sexual psychopathology. - Three forms of the somatization of
masturbation. - The pathological responsibility childhood. - Prepubescent
masturbation and adult seduction; the offense come from outside. - A new
organization of family space and control: the elimination of intermediaries
and the direct application of the parent's body to the child's body. -
Cultural involution of the family. - The medicalization of the new family
and the child's confession to the doctor, heir to the Christian techniques
of the confession. - The medical persecution of childhood by means of
restraint of masturbation. - The constitution of the cellular family that
takes responsibility for the body and life of the child. - Natural
education and State education.
Ten: 12 March 1975
What makes the psychoanalytic theory of incest acceptable to the bourgeois
family (danger comes from the child's desire. - Normalization of the urban
proletariat and the optimal distribution of the working-class family
(danger comes from fathers and brothers). - Two theories of incest. - The
antecedents of the abnormal psychiatric-judicial mesh and
psychiatric-familial mesh. - The problematic of sexuality and the analysis
of its irregularities. - The twin theory of instinct and sexuality as
epistemologico-political task of psychiatry. - The origins of sexual
psychopathology (Heinrich Kaan). - Etiology of madness on the basis of the
history of t he sexual instinct and imagination. - The case of the soldier
Bertrand.
Eleven: 19 March 1975
A mixed figure: the monster, the masturbator, and the individual who cannot
be integrated within the normative system of education. - The Charles Jouy
case and a family plugged into the new system of control and power. -
Childhood as the historical condition of the generalization of psychiatric
knowledge and power. - Psychiatrization of infantilism and constitution of
a science of normal and abnormal conduct. - The major theoretical
constructions of psychiatry in the second half of the nineteenth century. -
Psychiatry and racism: psychiatry and social defense.
Course Summary
Course Context
Index of Notions and Concepts
Index of Names