On Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:36:28 GMT, N.P.BARON [CREES] wrote:
>If a person was utterly and sincerely convinced that HE was Michel
>Foucault because of some psychiatric condition (however understood),
>what would Foucault have said? Especially when the man claimed his
>royalties?
>
>yours
>
>Nick
He would have probably paraphrased Lacan and say that M. Foucault who believe
himself to be M. Foucault is just as as much caught in a phantasy as any other "pauvre diable" who believe
himself to be M. Foucault, the only difference is the set of power/knowledge relations that support one
phantasy and lock up the other.
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Gabriel Ash
Notre-Dame
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>If a person was utterly and sincerely convinced that HE was Michel
>Foucault because of some psychiatric condition (however understood),
>what would Foucault have said? Especially when the man claimed his
>royalties?
>
>yours
>
>Nick
He would have probably paraphrased Lacan and say that M. Foucault who believe
himself to be M. Foucault is just as as much caught in a phantasy as any other "pauvre diable" who believe
himself to be M. Foucault, the only difference is the set of power/knowledge relations that support one
phantasy and lock up the other.
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Gabriel Ash
Notre-Dame
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