La psychanalyse et la société de normalisation : Lacan versus Foucault

In the 1970s, Foucault tied his genealogy of the society of normalization to his multiple genealogies of psychoanalysis. What is often misconstrued, however, is that Lacan himself related the emergence of psychoanalysis to the growing extension of the society of normalization, as a reaction to it, s...

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Main Author: Aurélie Pfauwadel
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Published: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon 2019-12-01
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description In the 1970s, Foucault tied his genealogy of the society of normalization to his multiple genealogies of psychoanalysis. What is often misconstrued, however, is that Lacan himself related the emergence of psychoanalysis to the growing extension of the society of normalization, as a reaction to it, shortly before the publication of The Will to Knowledge (1976). Lacan’s position proves to be diametrically opposed to Foucault’s in that he considers psychoanalysis as a practice that lies radically beyond norms, and not as an agent of normalization. The crucial question treated by this article is, on the one hand, that of the pertinence of Foucault’s genealogies, and, on the other, that of pitting against this a credible history of psychoanalysis that would account for its specificity and its power of subversion. The tools of a history of psychoanalysis, furnished by Lacan, are of interest to this topic in many respects. He develops this history from within the field of psychoanalysis and in conformity with psychoanalytic epistemology, and, contrary to Foucault, he strives to maintain the necessity of thinking of psychoanalysis as a specific field in relation to other fields of knowledge and practices.
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spelling doaj-art-ae42c4014d514b0899e98ae594f530202025-08-20T03:07:47ZfraÉcole Normale Supérieure de LyonAstérion1762-61102019-12-012110.4000/asterion.4332La psychanalyse et la société de normalisation : Lacan versus FoucaultAurélie PfauwadelIn the 1970s, Foucault tied his genealogy of the society of normalization to his multiple genealogies of psychoanalysis. What is often misconstrued, however, is that Lacan himself related the emergence of psychoanalysis to the growing extension of the society of normalization, as a reaction to it, shortly before the publication of The Will to Knowledge (1976). Lacan’s position proves to be diametrically opposed to Foucault’s in that he considers psychoanalysis as a practice that lies radically beyond norms, and not as an agent of normalization. The crucial question treated by this article is, on the one hand, that of the pertinence of Foucault’s genealogies, and, on the other, that of pitting against this a credible history of psychoanalysis that would account for its specificity and its power of subversion. The tools of a history of psychoanalysis, furnished by Lacan, are of interest to this topic in many respects. He develops this history from within the field of psychoanalysis and in conformity with psychoanalytic epistemology, and, contrary to Foucault, he strives to maintain the necessity of thinking of psychoanalysis as a specific field in relation to other fields of knowledge and practices.https://journals.openedition.org/asterion/4332Michel FoucaultpsychoanalysisJacques Lacannormsnormalizationgenealogy
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La psychanalyse et la société de normalisation : Lacan versus Foucault
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Michel Foucault
psychoanalysis
Jacques Lacan
norms
normalization
genealogy
title La psychanalyse et la société de normalisation : Lacan versus Foucault
title_full La psychanalyse et la société de normalisation : Lacan versus Foucault
title_fullStr La psychanalyse et la société de normalisation : Lacan versus Foucault
title_full_unstemmed La psychanalyse et la société de normalisation : Lacan versus Foucault
title_short La psychanalyse et la société de normalisation : Lacan versus Foucault
title_sort la psychanalyse et la societe de normalisation lacan versus foucault
topic Michel Foucault
psychoanalysis
Jacques Lacan
norms
normalization
genealogy
url https://journals.openedition.org/asterion/4332
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