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Stultifera Navis

The Great Confinement

The Birth of the Asylum

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Madness and Civilization

Michel Foucault

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When was Madness and Civilization first published?

(A) 1961

(B) 1965

(D) 1973

Which two French writers did Foucault cite as particular influences over Madness and Civilization?

(A) Jean-Paul Sartre and George Bachelard

(B) Georges Dumezil and Georges Canguilhem

(D) Jean Martin and Louis Althusser

What form did Madness and Civilization originally take?

(A) A newspaper article

(B) A television documentary

(D) A French doctoral thesis

With what striking image does the work begin?

(A) The House of correction

(B) The Road to Hell

(D) The lunatic asylum

What are the three time periods that Foucault analyzes?

(A) The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries

(B) The Middle Ages / Renaissance, the classical period and the modern age

(D) The age of delirium, the age of confusion and the age of schizophrenia

Which element was particularly associated with madness in the Renaissance?

(A) Water

(B) Fire

(D) Iron

What came before madness as a cultural "theme", according to Foucault?

(A) Life

(B) Forgetfulness

(D) Fear

Which two Renaissance dramatists represent madness in a particularly important way?

(A) Corneille and Webster

(B) Shakespeare and Cervantes

(D) Racine and Jonson

What is the seventeenth century for Foucault?

(A) The age of confinement

(B) The age of innocence

(D) The age of extremes

10. Why is 1656 such an important date?

(A) Madness was first invented then

(B) It represents the birth of the asylum

(D) It represents the founding of the Hopital General in Paris, and the beginning of confinement

What kind of power did the Hopital General represent?

(A) The power over life and death

(B) The power of the doctor over the patient

(D) The power of madness

How did confinement have an economic element?

(A) Those who did not work were confined and forced to work

(B) Madmen were forced to pay for their board and lodging

(D) Houses of confinement were often built next to factories

What effect did confinement have on madness?

(A) None at all

(B) It separated it from society, robbed it of freedom and linked it to reason

(D) It abolished it

What aspect of madness did confinement promote?

(A) Its secret logic

(B) Its relationship to the outside world

(D) Its rationality

What phenomenon in some ways makes madness "possible"?

(A) Human nature

(B) The passions

(D) Guilt

The classical period assumes a close relationship between madness and which other state, according to Foucault?

(A) Unconsciousness

(B) Arousal

(D) Dreaming

Why is blindness important to any discussion of classical madness?

(A) Because madmen are often blind

(B) Because madness is in a way reason blinded or dazzled

(D) Because madness is spiritual blindness

Whose formula of doubt does Foucault analyze in Madness and Civilization?

(A) His own

(B) Rene Descartes'

(D) Antonin Artaud's

What are the two pairs of concepts that Foucault calls the "faces of madness"?

(A) Mania and Melancholia; Hysteria and Hypochondria

(B) Pain and Anger; Sadness and Isolation

(D) Confinement and Liberty; Existence and Being

Which two practitioners does Foucault see as central to the history of madness?

(A) Brandt and Canguilhem

(B) Dumezil and Charcot

(D) Descartes and Shakespeare

What are the key theoretical techniques used to treat madness in the asylum?

(A) Cold showers, hot baths and regular exercise

(B) Psychoanalysis, Freudianism and yoga

(D) Awakening, theatrical representation, and the return to the immediate

What are the features of the nineteenth century persona that emerges in the asylum?

(A) Madness and Sanity

(B) Passion and Reason

(D) Guilt and Conscience

From where did the nineteenth century believe that madness arose?

(A) From the passions

(B) From social degeneracy and the depths of society

(D) From the soul

What did Freud do to the structures of the asylum?

(A) He inverted them

(B) He invented them

(D) He explained them to the masses

Which artists does Foucault feel particularly represent the theme of madness in modern society?

(A) Artaud, Nietzsche, Goya, Van Gogh and Nerval

(B) Cervantes, Shakespeare and Descartes

(D) Barraque, Barthes, Schoenberg and Borges

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