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French National Centre for Scientific Research
Post-Doc, CAPHES (USR 3308-CIRPHLES, CNRS-ENS, Paris)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Thesis Title: Michel Foucault et la Daseinsanalyse: une enquete méthodologique
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Jean-François Braunstein; Luigi Perissinotto
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About
My dissertation on Foucault’s “historical epistemology” questioned the role that the methods, problems and discourses of psychiatry played, at the origin of archaeology, in the epistemological methodology outlined by Foucault. I started from the interest of the young Foucault in existential psychiatry, and I focused especially on the French philosophical context in which the Introduction to Ludwig Binswanger’s “Dream and Existence” (1954) was conceived. At the core of my analysis was the concept of “historical a priori.” I argued that this concept is rooted not in purely philosophical phenomenology, but in the analysis of ‘existence,’ whose model was given to Foucault—especially via M. Merleau-Ponty and G. Canguilhem—by the “structural a priori” that phenomenological psychiatry borrowed from the medical anthropologies of such authors as Kurt Goldstein, Viktor von Weizsäcker, Frederik J. J. Buytendijk.
This investigation into the problem of the “historical a priori” drove my research interests in two directions. On the one hand, I continued to study the phenomenological current of psychiatry within the past and present-day French context. On the other hand, I widened my research in Foucault’s thought within the context of the ongoing debate between history and philosophy of sciences.
The aim of my current research project is to go back to the German and Swiss psychiatry of the beginning of the 20th century in order to questioning the common reading according to which phenomenological psychiatry would be born and developed as a philosophical-anthropological model in opposition to the scientific and medical framework of the psychiatry of that time. I intend to show how this current of psychiatry historically entailed an epistemological debate about the problem of what “scientificity” and “objectivity” mean in the field of psychiatry. It is a matter of a historical research that in particular focuses on the epistemological problem of how psychiatric “categories” and “types” were worked up at that time, thereby investigating especially the relations between psychiatry and medical sciences.
