Michel Foucault Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

  Michel Foucault

  Madness, Language, Reason

  "History of Madness".

• Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

  Michel Foucault

  Stars, Sleep, Night

• The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

  Michel Foucault

  Broken, Silence, Syntax

  Michel Foucault, Keith Hoeller, Ludwig Binswanger, Jacob Needleman (1984). “Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry”

• In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

  Michel Foucault

  Writing, Creating, Space

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.206, The New Press

• Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.

  Michel Foucault

  Art, Order, Law

  Michel Foucault (2005). “The Order of Things”, p.327, Routledge

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