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Foucault and the ‘Anti-Oedipus movement’: psychoanalysis as disciplinary powerInstituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, M.Basaure{at}em.uni-frankfurt.de What psychiatry was for the anti-psychiatry movement, psychoanalysis was for the French ‘Anti-Oedipus movement’ represented by Robert Castel, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Until now, the contribution of Foucault to this critical movement has been little known. In this paper I reconstruct in a systematic and exhaustive way Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis and, in particular, of the Oedipus-complex theory. I demonstrate that this critique presupposes a very specific epistemology and social theory. On an epistemological level, Foucault focuses on the power effects of psychoanalysis as a discourse of subjectivity. On a social-theoretical level, Foucault assumes a functionalist conception of society. These two aspects of Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis have not been adequately recognized in the discussion about his relationship to psychoanalysis (Derrida, Miller, Whitebook, among others). I argue that a fruitful dialogue between a Foucault-inspired critical social theory and psychoanalysis can take place only if these two distinct aspects are taken into account.
Key Words: Anti-Oedipus movement • critic of psychoanalysis • Foucauldian critical theory • Oedipus-complex • truth and power
History of Psychiatry, Vol. 20, No. 3,
340-359 (2009) |
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