Title:
Anormaux. English
Abnormal : lectures at the Coll�ege de France, 1974-1975 / Michel Foucault ; edited by Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni ; general editors, Fran�cois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana ; English series editor, Arnold I. Davidson ; translated by Graham Burchell.
Main Entry:
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Marchetti, Valerio, 1939-
Salomoni, Antonella.
Davidson, Arnold I. (Arnold Ira), 1955-
Publisher:
Picador,
Publication Date:
2003.
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
0312203349
9780312203344
0312424051
9780312424053
Subject:
Abnormalities, Human -- Social aspects -- History.
Philosophical anthropology -- History.
Power (Social sciences) -- History.
Anthropologie philosophique -- Histoire.
Philosophy.
Abnormalities, Human -- Social aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
Power (Social sciences)
Afwijkend gedrag.
Het Normale.
Culturele aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.
Abnormalities, Human -- Social aspects -- History
Philosophical anthropology -- History
Power (Social sciences) -- History
History.
Edition:
1st Picador USA ed.
Contents:
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 -- 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 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 case -- 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 -- 5 February 1975 In the land of the orges -- 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 -- 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 administrative 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 explosion of the symptomatological field -- Psychiatry becomes science and technique of abnormal individuals -- The abnormal: a huge domain of intervention -- 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 penitence and Charles Borromee'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 -- 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 possessed -- 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 -- 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 of childhood -- Prepubescent masturbation and adult seduction; the offense comes 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 the 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 -- 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 the sexual instinct and imagination -- The case of the soldier Bertrand -- 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.
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