Freud, Foucault and the ''Dialogue with Unreason''.

Journal/Book: Psyche Z Psychoanal Anwend. 1998; 52: Rotebuhlstrasse 77, D-7004 9 Stuttgart 1, Germany. Klett-Cotta Verlag. 505-544.

Abstract: From his early works (notably Madness and Society) to his late History, of Sexuality, Foucault's attitude to Freud and psychoanalysis was highly ambivalent. The early plaudits for Freud's creation of a critical, anti-establishment theory that gave insanity a voice to speak with are offset by the later pillorying of psychoanalysis as a normative science in the framework of the dispositif of sexuality. The author traces the various implications of the challenge Freud obviously represented for Foucault and arrives at far-reaching conclusions both about the immense impact exercised by Freud and the profounder motives underlying Foucault's own work and character Among these are the unresolved tensions between the theory and practice of ''transgression'' and the precarious status of self-reflection.

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