“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.” PhilosophySexHistoryCensorshipFoucaultThe History Of Sexuality Author:Foucault Michel
“Ultimately, confinement did seek to suppress madness, to eliminate from the social order a figure which did not find its place within it; the essence of confinement was not the exorcism of a danger. Confinement merely manifested what madness, in its essence, was: a manifestation of non-being; and by providing this manifestation, confinement thereby suppressed it, since it restored it to its truth as nothingness. Confinement is the practice which corresponds most exactly to madness experienced as unreason, that is, as the empty negativity of reason; by confinement, madness is acknowledged to be nothing.” ReasonHistoryCivilizationMadnessMedicinePrisonPsychiatrySystemConfinementUnreason Book:Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason