litost

Very interesting! Are you into Foucault?

History of consciousness - That can be taken in more than one way. Can you elaborate on that?

Cheers,
Lord_Frous

Foucault - I think you would relish. A lot. Unfortunately, in the USA people often focus much more on specific consequences and applications of his theories, even his loose opinions (I feel that he loved to show off) than on his theories/models, which are much more lasting than context-based applications.

He started studying to which extent concepts from organic patology actually apply to mental patology. Once he noticed the crucial role of the historical changes in psychology itself and, more generally, in (cultural) mentality, he wrote a book on (a non-comprehensive) history of madness and revised half of the previous book. He came back to the topic occasionally, and co-authored a book on the history of the hospital, but focused more on other far-reaching abstractions of the structure and evolution of mentalities, as well as rich applications to various examples of that cultural process beyond the health-related aforementioned ones (e.g. the processes that produced the contemporary notions/versions of: Economics, biology, linguistics, humanism, authorship, prision, punishment, sexuality, and homosexuality.)

Cheers,
Lord_Frous

[Edited on Jun 07, 2005 3:13PM]