Discourse
Discourse sets of rules and conditions which are established between institutions, economic and social practices, and patterns of behavior" [1] The term is syncretic with the LP term Creation Template.
Foucault
Foucault > Archaeological Research, Discourse, Subjugated Knowledge, Technologies of the Self
Syncretic Terms
Creation Template > Comprehensive Framework, Discourse, Existential Narrative, Existential Paradigm, Functional Narrative, Master Narrative, Master Story, Meaning Structure, Ruling Ideology
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Notes
"discourse’ would then be whatever constrains—but also enables—writing, speaking and thinking within such specific historical limits."[2]
"...discourses make possible certain realities, certain world views, and certain disciplines "makes possible the field of the human sciences—there are new objects which require new analyses—with distinct discourses covering each of the three areas: psychology (human life), sociology (human labour) and the studies of literature and myth (human signification, ‘man’ to ‘man’). Then, in the twentieth century, structuralism announces."[3]
"According to this position, what we can imagine (let alone put into practice) is both permitted and constrained by the discursive, that is representational, possibilities at our disposal.Thus both ‘the world’ and our consciousness of it are effects of the kinds of representations we can make of it. But, at the same time, discourse is not just a form of representation.""[4]. In other words, discourses provide "templates" that quite literally create the world around us. See Creation Templates
"A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas; it is at the stable point of reason that he secures the end of the chain; this link is all the stronger in that we do not know of what it is made and we believe it to be our own work."[5]
"Discourse operates through the deployment of disci�plinary mechanisms such as hierarchical observation, the normalizing gaze, and examination."[6]
‘‘The examination combines the techniques of an observ�ing hierarchy and those of a normalizing judgment. It is a normalizing gaze, a surveillance that makes it possible to qualify, to classify and to punish. It establishes over individuals a visibility through which one differentiates
them and judges them.’’[7]
Footnotes
- ↑ McDonald, Matthew, and Jean O’Callaghan. “Positive Psychology: A Foucauldian Critique.” The Humanistic Psychologist, 36, no. 2 (April 2008): 127–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/08873260802111119.
- ↑ McHoul, Alec, and Wendy Grace. A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject. New York: Routledge, 1993. p. 31.
- ↑ McHoul, Alec, and Wendy Grace. A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject. New York: Routledge, 1993. p. 33.
- ↑ McHoul, Alec, and Wendy Grace. A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject. New York: Routledge, 1993. p. 34.
- ↑ Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). London: Penguin. p. 102-3
- ↑ McDonald, Matthew, and Jean O’Callaghan. “Positive Psychology: A Foucauldian Critique.” The Humanistic Psychologist, 36, no. 2 (April 2008): 127–42. p. 129. https://doi.org/10.1080/08873260802111119.
- ↑ Foucault, M. (1975). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison (A. Sheridan, Trans.). London: Penguin. p. 184.
