For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Foucault, Michel Psychiatric power: Lectures at the college de france, 1973--1974 2008 p.214 Book Foucault Citations, Psychiatric Power Foucault, Postmodernism, Psychiatric Power, Power, Resistance, Labour, Wages, Medicine, Clinic, Psychiatrization
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Psychiatric power: Lectures at the college de france, 1973--1974

by Foucault, Michel (2008)

Key Passage

The institutional assimilation of idiots and the mad takes place precisely on the basis of this concern to release parents for possible work. (p.214)

Keywords

Foucault, Postmodernism, Psychiatric Power, Power, Resistance, Labour, Wages, Medicine, Clinic, Psychiatrization

Themes

Foucault Citations, Psychiatric Power

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