by Michel Foucault · Ediciones Paidós · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475093062
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In 'Mental Illness and Personality', Michel Foucault explores the theoretical problems faced by mental pathology, questioning whether the notions of illness, symptom, and etiology are applicable in the same sense as in organic pathology. Foucault argues that the root of mental pathology does not lie in a 'metapathology,' but in a reflection on the human being and the human sciences, freed from abstractions that obscure the truth of the disease and alienate the patient. This text challenges the division between the normal and the pathological, inviting a deep reflection on the human condition and mental illness.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
