Indeed, we must no longer try to situate passion in a casual succession, or halfway between the corporeal and the spiritual; passion indicates, at a new, deeper level, that the soul and the body are in perpetual metaphorcal relation… soul and body are always each other’s immediate expression.

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“Madness & Civilization”

Michel Foucault, Random House, 1965 page 88.

One more step, and the entire system becomes a unity in which body and soul communicate immediately in the symbolic values of common qualities.

January 2nd, 1700 § Comments Off on One more step, and the entire system becomes a unity in which body and soul communicate immediately in the symbolic values of common qualities. § permalink

“Madness & Civilization”

Michel Foucault, Random House, 1965 page 87.

…”This is what happens in the medicine of solids and fluids, which dominates eighteenth-century practice. Tension and release, hardness and softness, rigidity and relaxation, congestion and dryness– These qualitative states characterize the soul as much as the body…”

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