Abstract

HERNANDEZ LARA, Oliver Gabriel. Experience and critical history of madness in Michel Foucault. Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq. [online]. 2018, vol.38, n.133, pp.99-113. ISSN 2340-2733.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/s0211-57352018000100005.

The present article argues that, although it is difficult to find continuities in the work of Michel Foucault, there are at least two questions, one theoretical and one thematic, that can be considered constant throughout his career. Thus, although the interpretations of Foucault's work that divide his trajectory into two periods (archeology and genealogy), or better, into three thematic perspectives (knowledge, power and subjectivity), are considered adequate, we share Luca Paltrinieri's proposal according to which it is more useful to understand his intellectual production in terms of a series of key transformations in the concept of experience. Taking this consideration into account, the article addresses the consequences of these transformations with the aim of providing a schematic overview of the theoretical and analytical contributions of Michel Foucault for a critical history of psychiatry.

Keywords : experience; madness; discontinuity; concept formation; subjectivation.

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