Foucault On Psychoanalysis
Missed Encounter or Gordian Knot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12947843 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark G E Kelly (0000-0001-8343-3204, Western Sydney University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 28 |
| Pages | 96-119 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foucault Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1832-5203 • E-ISSN: 1832-5203 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.22439/fs.v1i28.6075 |
| OpenAlex | W3089061433 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Foucault’s remarks concerning psychoanalysis are ambivalent and even prima facie contra-dictory, at times lauding Freud and Lacan as anti-humanists, at others being severely criti-cal of their imbrication within psychiatric power. This has allowed a profusion of interpretations of his position, between so-called ‘Freudo-Foucauldians’ at one extreme and Foucauldians who condemn psychoanalysis as such at the other. In this article, I begin by surveying Foucault’s biographical and theoretical relationship to psychoanalysis and the sec-ondary scholarship on this relationship to date. I pay particular attention to the discussion of the relationship in feminist scholarship and queer theory, and that by psychoanalytic thinkers, as well as attending to the particular focus in the secondary literature on Fou-cault’s late work and his relationship to the figure of Jacques Lacan. I conclude that Fou-cault’s attitude to psychoanalysis varies with context, and that some of his criticisms of psychoanalysis in part reflect an ignorance of the variety of psychoanalytic thought, partic-ularly in its Lacanian form. I thus argue that Foucault sometimes tended to overestimate the extent of the incompatibility of his approach with psychoanalytic ones and that there is ultimately no serious incompatibility there. Rather, psychoanalysis represents a substantively different mode of inquiry to Foucault’s work, which is neither straightforwardly ex-clusive nor inclusive of psychoanalytic insights
Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Scholarship · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
The lives of Michel Foucault
Foucault, Subjectivity, and Technologies of the Self
The other side of the canvas
Crisis of Authority
The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
The Order of Things
Foucault Contra Honneth
Freud, Foucault and ‘the dialogue with unreason’
Foucault, Freud, and the Repressive Hypothesis
The Biopolitics of Pleasure
The Hermeneutics of the Subject
To Do Justice to Freud
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |