Foucault — Madness and Civilization
Book page: foucault-madness-civilization
From: Quotes batch 6
Edition: Pantheon (1965 Translation)
On Society & Exclusion
“Madness was not a condition of the soul… but a form of social frontier.” (Preface, p. ix)
On Consciousness & Reason
“The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.” (Preface, p. xi)
On Identity
“Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it is the constitutive outside of the world of reason.” (Chapter 9, p. 287)