Re: [Foucault-L] Speaking for Others: the voice of derangement

You rendered a good point Bradly: I cant see that
anyone else has taken it up and stood upon it.

The Riviere family so lived to say that everything
hurt all the time. Well, that defeaning voice, which
was confounded by silence, gathered force, and,
finally, was liberated by 'the trenchent of
lightening' which the 'divine impatience' armed Pierre
Riverrie with. This voice, 'the voice of derangement',
was reduced to silence by a discourse which spoke over
the top of it (and pronounced, in its name, a
discourse, that of madness and badness, which was to
be taken as its own); if this voice, that of
derangment, constituted a 'breech without
reconciliation', then the voice which filled that
defeaning silence (i.e., the doctors and lawyers
discourse) must be understood as affecting the return
from which it represented a departure...

Regards.


--- Bradley Nitins <b.nitins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
> I would say that the best example of this is
> embodied in _I, Pierre
> Riviere...._ a dossier which was complied by
> Foucault and some his
> students from a two-year long seminar at the College
> de France. This
> work begins with a series of historical documents,
> mainly official
> documents by the authorities, dealing with the
> Riviere case. James
> Miller, in his biography _The Passion of Michel
> Foucault_ quotes
> Foucault as arguing that this allowed "the power of
> derangement
> proper to a discourse like that of Riviere" to speak
> for itself' [see
> page 228]. Mark Kelly will be interested to hear
> that Miller goes on
> to establish a close connection between this type of
> methodological
> approach and that employed by the GIP
> best
> bradley nitins
>
>
>
> "A table of values is set up over each people.
> Behold, it is the
> table of its triumphs! Behold, it is the voice of
> its will to power"
> Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
>
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