Re: Floating reference

Umm...I believe he was referring to Freud.
I have, however, been known to be way wrong about things.

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 14:40:39 Ben B. Day wrote:
>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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