Description
Written in 1954 and revised in 1962, "Mental Illness and Psychology" delineates the shift that occurred in Foucault’s thought during this period. Part I reflects Foucault’s early interest in Freud and the psychoanalytic tradition. Respectful of Freud, Foucault is still contending with Freud’s influence. Part II, rewritten in 1962, marks a dramatic change in Foucault’s thinking. Examining the history of madness as a social and cultural construct, he has moved outside of the psychoanalytic tradition into the racial critique of Freud that was to dominate his later work.
