“The fatal weakness of most psychiatric historiographies lies in the historians' failure to give sufficient weight to the role of coercion in psychiatry and to acknowledge that mad-doctoring had nothing to do with healing.”
― Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
― Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
“The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.”
― The Space of Literature
― The Space of Literature
“Sanity is over-rated. It lacks color.”
― A Journal of the Crazy Year
― A Journal of the Crazy Year
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