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" As for a common language, there is no such thing; or rather, there is no such thing any longer; the constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as... "
The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and ... - Page 3
by Silke-Maria Weineck - 2002 - 179 pages
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Women in the United States, 1830-1945

S. J. Kleinberg - History - 1999 - 604 pages
...psychiatry in order to permit the mad to speak their own history. "As for a common language," he wrote, "there is no such thing any longer; the constitution...which the exchange between madness and reason was made. "6 Psychiatrists talk to and about the mad, much like ethnographers, until recently, talked to...
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Michel Foucault

Barry Smart - Philosophy - 1994 - 434 pages
...physical and moral constraint, the anonymous pressure of the group, the requirements of conformity. As for a common language, there is no such thing;...which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established...
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Foucault and Derrida: The Other Side of Reason

Roy Boyne - Philosophy - 1990 - 200 pages
...physical and moral constraint, the anonymous pressure of the group, the requirements of conformity. As for a common language, there is no such thing;...already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those who stammered imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between reason and madness...
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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography

David M. Halperin - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 257 pages
...preface to Madness and Civilization, for example, Foucault describes his project, famously, as follows: In the serene world of mental illness, modern man...which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established...
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R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-psychiatry

Zbigniew Kotowicz - Antipsychiatry - 1997 - 152 pages
...physical and moral constraint, the anonymous pressure of the group, the requirements of conformity. As for a common language, there is no such thing;...which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry which is a monologue about madness, has been established only on the...
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Of Men and Monsters: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Construction of the Serial Killer

Richard Tithecott - Social Science - 1997 - 207 pages
...describing the segregation of the mentally ill in the nineteenth century, says, "As for a common language, there is no such thing any longer; the constitution...which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established...
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Role-play and the World as Stage in the Comedia

Jonathan Thacker, Professor of Golden Age Spanish Literature Jonathan Thacker - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 222 pages
...physical and moral constraint, the anonymous pressure of the group, the requirements of conformity. As for a common language, there is no such thing;...which the exchange between madness and reason was made. (p. xii) 51 Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilisation: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason...
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Soteriologies of India and Their Role in the Perception of Disability

Anand Rao - Business & Economics - 2004 - 276 pages
...79. 1211 ibid. p. 80. 121 ibid. p. 80. eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialog, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts...which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established...
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Between Rationality and Irrationality: The Jewish Psychotherapeutic System

Psychology - 204 pages
..."[M]adness and non-madness, reason and non-reason [were] inextricably involved: inseparable...," while "[T]he end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue... in which the exchange between madness and reason was made [because] the language of psychiatry, which...
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