Great uneasiness arose about madmen. Superficially, the world has become small and kn... A selection from After the Catastrophe by Carl Jung, 1945. In Chapter 2, “The Great Confinement,” Foucault explores more deeply the foundational event he introduced in the preface: the creation in the mid-1600s of the General Hospital in Paris to confine the mad and poor. They are being confined within society, which means they are excluded from inside. Pascal's treatise is the source of the famous analogy of humanity with a single individual: "...not merely individual man advance in the sciences, but all men taken collectively advance in them, as the world grows older; for it is with successive generations of men, as with the different ages of the individual, so that the whole series of individuals, continued throughout the ages, should be considered as one and the same man, persisting always and continually learning." ...what is more unjust that to treat our ancestors with more deference than These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault. 290 0 obj
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Great uneasiness arose about madmen. Superficially, the world has become small and kn... A selection from After the Catastrophe by Carl Jung, 1945. In Chapter 2, “The Great Confinement,” Foucault explores more deeply the foundational event he introduced in the preface: the creation in the mid-1600s of the General Hospital in Paris to confine the mad and poor. They are being confined within society, which means they are excluded from inside. Pascal's treatise is the source of the famous analogy of humanity with a single individual: "...not merely individual man advance in the sciences, but all men taken collectively advance in them, as the world grows older; for it is with successive generations of men, as with the different ages of the individual, so that the whole series of individuals, continued throughout the ages, should be considered as one and the same man, persisting always and continually learning." ...what is more unjust that to treat our ancestors with more deference than These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault. 290 0 obj
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For the great majority of that time, madness and its cognates – insanity, lunacy, frenzy, mania, melancholia, hysteria and the like – were the terms in general usage, not just among the masses or even the educated classes, but univer-sally.
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