You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.
Michel FoucaultSchools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
Michel FoucaultDeath left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.
Michel FoucaultA way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be "gay," I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.
Michel Foucault