REGIMES OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES

A DISCURSIVE ARCHEOLOGY ABOUT MADNESS

Resumo

This text aims to present a horizontal reading, that is, a census of some elements that are part of the history of some regimes of knowledge and certain practices present in the discursivity of the seminal work “History of Madness in the Classical Age”, by Michel Foucault. To this end, madness is described from the regency prisms of empiricist, rationalist and positivist knowledge that structure the modulations of understanding madness as an object of knowledge according to which its own history traces different paradigms of approaches and, consequently, discursive propositions. distinct areas capable of managing regimes of knowledge and practices. The method used here is derived, contrary to what many preach, from Foucault's archeology of knowledge for which knowledge is only possible to be interpreted based on its multiple discursive manifestations within the social body in which it is in circulation. As results obtained, new ways of educating subjectivity and its multiple cultural manifestations in the contemporary collective circuit are found.