Abnormal

Lectures at the Collége de France, 1974–1975

Michel Foucault, Graham Burchell

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781784786403
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Three decades after his death, Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are enduring classics. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the famous Collge de France. These seminal events, attended by thousands, created the benchmarks for contemporary social enquiry. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorising individuals who "resemble their crime before they commit it." Building on the themes of societal self-defence developed in earlier works, Foucault shows how defining "normality" became a prerogative of power in the nineteenth century, shaping the institutions-from the prisons to the family-meant to deal with "monstrosity, " whether sexual, physical, or spiritual. The Collge de France lectures add immeasurably to our appreciation and understanding of Foucault's thought.

INDEX OF NOTIONS AND CONCEPTS

aberration(s)

sexual, 234, 237, 279-80

abnormal domains, 291

frame of references for, 55-56, 57, 59-60

human monster, xvii, 55-57, 324-25

individual to be corrected, xvii, 57-59, 325-26, 331

masturbating child, 59-60, 326-27

abnormal individual(s), xvii

archeology of, 168

character of, 274

division between normal and abnormal, 312-13

as everyday or pale monster, 57, 58, 138

genealogy of, 42-43, 57-58, 96-97, 274, 291, 323

history of three elements of, 61-62, 109-12, 291, 323-25

incorrigible, 57-59, 61, 333

masturbator, 59-60, 61

monster, 55-57, 60, 61, 291, 331

abnormality

archeology of, 168

domain of, 55-61, 167

genealogy of, 42-43, 57-58, 274, 291, 323

sexuality and, 60, 64, 167-68, 194, 327

syndromes of, 310-16

technology of, 163, 316

act(s)

of delirium, 112, 133, 158, 285

instinctive, 138

motiveless, 118-19, 121-22, 138

agoraphobia, 310-11

alienists, 301-2

end of, 161-62, 282

medicine of, 158-59, 308-9

Annales medico-psychologiques, 168

Annuaire du Collège de France, xiv, 331

anthropophagy

incest and, 102-3

anticonvulsives

disciplinary systems, 226

internal moderator, 217-18

medicine, 224-25

stylistic modulation of the confession, 217-18

architecture

educational establishments and, 232, 264

Baillarger’s principle, 158, 274

body

background-, 313-14

bewitched, 211

of concupiscence, 202

condition of, 311, 312-13, 314, 315

in-depth, 211

of desire and pleasure, 191, 201-2, 211, 218, 231-32, 236

as origin of sin, 192, 201

possessed, 212

transported, 211

cannibalism, 99, 137-38

incest and, 102-4, 109-10

monsters and people in revolt, 98-99, 101, 102-4, 110, 132, ...