Michel Foucault Madness Quotations

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.