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 family relations—could… 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
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 Sexuality, which will… Continue Reading
By Linda Zerilli Abstract 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… 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 one hundred… Continue Reading