CONCEPÇÕES DO PODER EM HISTÓRIA DA LOUCURA

Abstract

In this article we show that, although Foucault, in History of Madness (1961), operates with a conception of the functioning of power in which the notion of repression is central, it is already possible to find elements of what he, in the 1970s, will call “positive power technologies”and their productivity. For this, we analyze how he describes the “silencing” of madness after the Renaissance, at the level of a “practical conscience” which is shown in the phenomena of “great internment” and the birth of the Asylum of Tuke and Pinel. All of this, taking into account the transformation of the modes of the partition between reason and unreason which is at the heart of the 1961 work.