Michel Foucault Quotes about Silence

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

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”