From the gaze to language: procedures for the production of knowledge - a Foucaultian discourse analysis

The constitution of knowledge is possible through certain procedures. In this paper, I see language as a procedure in a similar way to Foucault’s work on the gaze (in Birth of Clinic). Language is thus seen as a procedure that enables a certain configuration of  what the gaze prod...

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Author: Severo, Cristine Görski
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2010
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina (UNISUL)
Repository:Linguagem em (Dis)curso (Online)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br:article/261
Online Access:https://portaldeperiodicos.animaeducacao.com.br/index.php/Linguagem_Discurso/article/view/261
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Gaze
Language
Procedure
Object
Confession
Mirada
Lenguaje
Procedimiento
Objeto
Confesión
Olhar
Linguagem
Procedimento
Confissão
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Summary:The constitution of knowledge is possible through certain procedures. In this paper, I see language as a procedure in a similar way to Foucault’s work on the gaze (in Birth of Clinic). Language is thus seen as a procedure that enables a certain configuration of  what the gaze produces as an objet. I analyse, then, the way a certain object (hysteria) is thought and produced through a clinical gaze (by Charcot) and through language (by Freud). Finally, I think about language as a procedure in the field of psychoanalysis, from the perspective of what Foucault calls “tactics of confession”, a characteristic of christian practices.