By Bernard E. Harcourt The presentations by Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson, and Anna Lvovsky at Foucault 4/13 raised challenging questions concerning the political dimensions of Psychiatric Power. Linda Zerilli started us off by questioning whether the disempowered hysteric patient—predominantly middle-class women trapped in coercive… Continue Reading
Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson, and Anna Lvovsky discuss Foucault’s fourth lecture series at the Collège de France, Psychiatric Power (1973-1974). Please watch the video here or here. Please also read the introductory posts presenting the lectures by Linda Zerilli, Alondra Nelson,… Continue Reading
By Daniele Lorenzini I have followed with great interest, from Paris, the discussions which arose before, during, and after the first three meetings of the seminar “Foucault 13/13”, and I really look forward to “Foucault 4/14”, which is going to… Continue Reading
Anna Lvovsky (Ph.D., History of American Civilization, Harvard University; J.D., Harvard Law School) is a legal scholar and historian of gender and sexuality whose work focuses on the intersection of state regulation, morality, and the social sciences. She is currently an… Continue Reading
By Anna Lvovsky Psychiatric Power is an ambitious and provocative set of lectures, not least as a fulcrum between Foucault’s more famous published works: History of Madness, on the one hand, whose approach Foucault now partly derogates, and History of… Continue Reading
Linda M. G. Zerilli is a leading critical thinker and author in the areas of feminist theory, political theory, and Continental philosophy. She is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago,… Continue Reading
By Linda Zerilli At the seminar on Psychiatric Power, I plan to focus my remarks on this question: what does the figure of the hysteric do for Foucault’s (emergent) theory of disciplinary power? I will be looking at the way in… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Le Pouvoir psychiatrique. Cours au Collège de France. 1973-1974, Jacques Lagrange, ed. (Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2003) ________________, Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974, Graham Burchell, trans. (Picador, 2006) Book Reviews… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt While the previous year’s lectures on The Punitive Society focused in large part on the birth of the penitentiary and were motivated by the question “why the prison one hundred and fifty years ago, and for… Continue Reading