mad and non-mad, part 1

There is a belief that the psychiatrist came and saved the mad from the prison. That a wave of benevolence came and began to think of madman as patients and not prisoners...

gets coded as an act of 'liberation'

however, this physciatric treatment of madness is an illusion.

The Retreat
the segregation of the mad into communities (outside cities?) parallels a community of quakers in the following ways:
1) the sight of evil (by evil i think he means the 'other' is the cause of suffering in the soul of madman. "horror, hate and disgust." Segregation
takes away this sight.
2) religion plays double role of "nature and of rule". it is both reason and spontaneity at the same time. depth of nature is embodied in everyday practice and in education and its is a constant principle of coercion.

Religion has the only strategies to safeguard reason under the "delirious excitement of insanity." religion is what cannot go mad. it is the invidncble part of reason.

in the asylum, religion plays same role as in prison. In prison religion and social mileui forced improsnment from without. it literally excluded people to a confined space because they broke the edicts of religion or the social mileiu. In the asylum or the retreat the madness is not just controlled like it is in the prison it invests in the patient. he is not just secluded form the non-mad... but religion places its moral resaoning element within the invidual. "where he will bein debate with himself and his surroundings: to constiute for him a milieu where, far from being protected, he will be kept in a perpetual anxiety, ceaselesly threatned by Law and Transgression."

religion had to be filtered. aslysm is rea religious domain witout relgion

it could not included the worship and political belief. because these produced alot of history and meloncholy... it had to be filtired to only include those parts of it that were of moral content... had to bring man to closer to moral truth... return people to their duties and obligations...etc... eclusive of its fantastic text, exclusively on the level of cirtue, labor, and social life.

Boundry/non-boundry of Bio-=power:

acting on the body to acting through it.

foucault uses words such as Fear, Violence, and Power to describe the boundry or non-boundry of Bio-Power. in the prison the boundry was clear between reason and non-reason. Fear and violence over the fury(madness) was on the surface... which means external to the body... it confined the body.

but in the asluy or the retreatthe fear, violence or power is of great depth. it passes between reason and nonreason likde a "mediation" therouth the common nature they still "share" and "by which it could link them together" and cure the mad. Power, and ferar, and violence was now "endowed with a power of disalienation" which permitred it to restore a primitive complicity between the madman and the man of reason fear no longer outside of prison gates but within the walls of the conscience.

The values of family and work, all the acknowledged virtures (power) now reign in the asylum... the aslyum isn't excluded it is directly invested byu moral commnity.

evidence:
upon entering the retreat the madman was deshackled and given freedom so long as he didn't break rules of morality and of the asylum. "he promised to retrain himself." when the madman as he always did acted up the doctors threatened to punish him in the old ways... he would calm down and after a few months of this would be able to return to societity cured.

interpretation:
fear is transmitted to the madmen directly as in the prison... its the same thing.. only that it is through speech and not instruments... there is no quesiton of lmiting a libery that rages byeond its bounds...the doctors will punish someone who oversteps bounds... its the same thing as prison... but"arking out and glorifying a region of simple responsiblity where any manifestation of mandess will be linked to punishment"
Concentration of this madness to a class of people?
the aslyum has to impose its power on tohose who are unfamiliar with it... and those whome insantiy is arleady present before it has made itself manifest...
birth of madman.
it is the birth of the madman...
no longer just punished mad mans guilt... but it organised that guilt... he became an object... vulnerable to doctor and his own intevention. he was to cure himself and be cured. THis a movement by which objectifying himself for the other... (Transmission of biopower?)
to the outsider power has to act as an awakening and a reminder" invoking a forgotton nature; in the second it aacts a as a social shift in order to snatch the indiviudal from his condition
talking about boundary of reason and power... mandess used to be a great confinement to poverty and unemployment... but now it became a social falure which was its cause, model and lmit: mandess rose from the lower depth of society... that which is outside it. p150

methods by which asylum cures,... or by which fear flows through individual... and not imposed on surface.
silence. ignoring... exchange used to be in form of chains... now exchange and dialogue are eliminated...
Recognition by mirror... come to see self as objectively mad.