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Psychology in Michel Foucault's História da Loucura

Michel Foucault investigates "the history of the relations that the thought keeps with the truth" and disnaturalizes body, soul and psiqué as historical and discursive inventions, which have meaning only if included into the epistemique arrangements productions of truths, in the case, the emergence of modern thought, specially about the human sciences, in general. This research studies the Foucault's order of the speech on Psychology, in his book História da Loucura, with the aim of providing allowances for understanding the history of the speeches of Psychology, about the building of psychological subject and object and its subjectivateurs effects.

Foucault; Psychology; psis knowledge; body; madness


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