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      Two incompatible positions in the challenge against the 'individual subject of modernity'

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      Author
      Tekelioglu, O.
      Date
      1997
      Source Title
      Goffman
      Print ISSN
      0959-3543
      Publisher
      Sage Publications Ltd.
      Volume
      7
      Issue
      2
      Pages
      215 - 233
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This paper discusses the theoretical status of human beings in the therapeutic sciences of modern societies. The concept of the 'individual' was shaped, and achieved an unsurpassable status in scientific discourse, during the 17th and 18th centuries. Likewise specialized disciplines have appeared to codify its 'normal' and 'deviant' conducts. Since the 1960s, there have arisen certain critical accounts challenging the existence of such an individual in social theory. I examine two perspectives questioning the status of the 'individual' in administrative practices at institutions of confinement: the anti-psychiatry movement and the post-structuralist critique of 'reason'. This paper contrasts these positions through the work of two exemplary thinkers (Goffman and Foucault), and reveals the impossibility of reconciliation, owing in the main to the very definition of the individual subject in theoretical discourse.
      Keywords
      Individuality
      Institutionalization
      Foucault
      Anti-psychiatry
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/25566
      Published Version (Please cite this version)
      https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354397072005
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