(2018) FOUCAULT, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND CRITIQUE: two aspects of problematization, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 23:2, 170-186
DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2018.1451570
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0969725X.2018.1451570?journalCode=cang20
Abstract
In this paper, I examine the relationship between Foucault and psychoanalysis through the lens of problematization. Rather than asking the interpretive question of what was Foucault’s own attitude toward psychoanalysis, I analyze what sort of problem psychoanalysis might be thought to pose for a Foucaultian conception of critique. The bulk of the paper is devoted to a discussion of the three primary dangers that psychoanalysis is typically thought to pose for such a conception; these dangers are grouped under the headings of normalization, the drives, and power. After arguing that these three dangers can be overcome – by which I mean that they do not amount to reasons for believing that psychoanalysis is conceptually incompatible with Foucaultian critique – I then turn to a discussion of how psychoanalytic concepts and categories are related to Foucault’s method of critical problematization. There I argue that psychoanalysis, far from being incompatible with Foucault’s understanding of critique, actually serves as a model for his own critical method understood as a radical approach to writing history.
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