Date: 22-Apr-2007 From: Cristine Severo <crisgorskihotmail.com> Subject: A Foucaultian Perspective Upon Madness and Family: Analysis of the anti-asylum discourse
Institution: Federal University of Santa Catarina
Program: Pós-Graduação em Lingüística
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2003
Author: Cristine Gorski Severo
Dissertation Title: A Foucaultian Perspective Upon Madness and Family: Analysis of the anti-asylum discourse
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Dissertation Director:
Edair Gorski
Fabio Lopes da Silva
Dissertation Abstract:
This work discusses the way 'madness' and 'family' are produced both genealogically and archeologically by the anti-asylum discourse. I consider that this discourse is constituted by four discursive practices: the psychoanalysis, the theory of heredity, the neuroscience and the systemic therapy. I analyse these practices from a Foucaultian perspective that considers the way they produce - politically - the madness and the family as an object of knowledge. In order to proceed the analysis I use the following tools offered by Foucault: the conception of power; the conception of procedures for the production of knowledge and also a short description about the birth of asylum and the birth of anti-asylum discourse. Finally, I enhance the political and archaeological discussion presented in this thesis.
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