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From: Kevin Turner <k_turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 02:54:22 +0000
Firstly, Happy New Year to One and All.
Secondly:
If we can say that Foucault’s analysis in "Discipline and Punish"
relates not, or not exclusively, to the birth of the bricks and mortar
we call prison, but rather to a modern experience in which ‘the soul is
the prison of the body’ (DP: 30); then we can say, with regard to the
analysis he undertakes in "Madness and Civilization," that what he is
attempting to account for is not simply the “experience of madness,” nor
'The Birth of the Asylum,' but rather the historical a priori for the
constitution of a field of possible experience in which "reason is the
asylum (seizure [1]) of the mind (i.e. soul)?
[1] Latin /asylum/, from Greek /asylon/, from /a-/ and /sylon/, /syle/
right of seizure.
Regards - Kevin.
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