Michel Foucault Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

  Michel Foucault

  Silence, Strategy, Discourse

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.27, Vintage

• 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”

• Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

  Michel Foucault

  Philosophy, Errors, Order

  Michel Foucault (1990). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, Vintage

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