I'm pretty sure it's in the introduction to the Order of Things -- I don't
have my copy of it with me, so I can't give you the exact quote -- but he
says that was the first risk that he took. what he meant, as I understood
it, was that there is an order outside the structure of conscious thought, a
scaffolding that he describes in the book. one example would be the way in
which logic is constructed, such as finding it's validity early on in
similitude, then in difference, and later in function. sorry I can't be more
exact...
joe brennan....
In a message dated 07/20/2000 10:00:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
catmills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<<
Dan,
I think you're right in thinking Foucault said something like that.
However, he didn't mean it in the sense of any sort of 'collective
unconscious' but rather as the 'outside', as that which is unsaid or
unsayable, within a given socio-cultural formation. Unfortunately, I
cannot tell you where he said it except that I think it was about the time
of Power/Knowledge. Perhaps in an interview either published in this
collection or around that time anyway. I think the comment is particularly
in relation to Madness and Civilisation, but can't be any more clear I'm
afraid.
Catherine.
>>
have my copy of it with me, so I can't give you the exact quote -- but he
says that was the first risk that he took. what he meant, as I understood
it, was that there is an order outside the structure of conscious thought, a
scaffolding that he describes in the book. one example would be the way in
which logic is constructed, such as finding it's validity early on in
similitude, then in difference, and later in function. sorry I can't be more
exact...
joe brennan....
In a message dated 07/20/2000 10:00:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
catmills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
<<
Dan,
I think you're right in thinking Foucault said something like that.
However, he didn't mean it in the sense of any sort of 'collective
unconscious' but rather as the 'outside', as that which is unsaid or
unsayable, within a given socio-cultural formation. Unfortunately, I
cannot tell you where he said it except that I think it was about the time
of Power/Knowledge. Perhaps in an interview either published in this
collection or around that time anyway. I think the comment is particularly
in relation to Madness and Civilisation, but can't be any more clear I'm
afraid.
Catherine.
>>