Re: Floating reference

A tip, Ben: The person lived in Vienna and founded psychoanalysis..,-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben B. Day" <bday@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 8:40 PM
Subject: Floating reference


> In Foucault's _History of Sexuality_, vol. 1, he writes:
>
> > One must not speak of these "genital causes": so went the phrase -
> > muttered in a muted voice - which the most famous ears of our time
> > overheard one day in 1886, from the mouth of Charcot.
> [pg. 112, Hurley trans.]
>
> I must admit, I'm deathly curious as to who Foucault considers to be
> "the most famous ears of our time." Anyone have any idea whom this is
> a reference to?
>
> ----Ben
>


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