The Passion of Michel FoucaultBased on extensive new research and a bold interpretation of the man and his texts, The Passion of Michel Foucault is a startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers. It chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional odyssey, from his early interest in dreams to his final preoccupation with sexuality and the nature of personal identity. |
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Page 76
... fantasies arising from everyday experience , fantasies that might yet become useful in conscious existence . Thus one of the tasks of psychoanalysis , in Binswanger's view , is to help the dreamer wake up and start translating his or ...
... fantasies arising from everyday experience , fantasies that might yet become useful in conscious existence . Thus one of the tasks of psychoanalysis , in Binswanger's view , is to help the dreamer wake up and start translating his or ...
Page 117
... fantasies and wild impulses : such limit - experiences are to be valued as a way of winning back access to the occluded , Dionsyian dimension of being human . -It is not a human being's fault if these impulses , confined and reg ...
... fantasies and wild impulses : such limit - experiences are to be valued as a way of winning back access to the occluded , Dionsyian dimension of being human . -It is not a human being's fault if these impulses , confined and reg ...
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... fantasies of unrestricted slaughter , he asserted the " unlimited right of an all - powerful monstrosity . " 129 This fantasy , of " an all - powerful monstrosity , " had once seemed to Foucault to offer a usefully " total contestation ...
... fantasies of unrestricted slaughter , he asserted the " unlimited right of an all - powerful monstrosity . " 129 This fantasy , of " an all - powerful monstrosity , " had once seemed to Foucault to offer a usefully " total contestation ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR | 13 |
WAITING FOR GODOT | 37 |
Copyright | |
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