the Great Confinement
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Foucauldian concept
concept in social theory
concept in the history of psychiatry
historical concept
The Great Confinement is Michel Foucault’s term for the early modern European practice of mass institutionalization of the poor, mad, and socially deviant, which he interprets as a key moment in the historical construction of madness and social control.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Great Confinement | 0 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Foucauldian concept
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concept in social theory ⓘ concept in the history of psychiatry ⓘ historical concept ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
absolutist state formation
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classical age of reason ⓘ moral discipline of populations ⓘ regulation of labor ⓘ urbanization in early modern Europe ⓘ |
| carriedOutIn |
charitable hospitals
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houses of correction ⓘ hôpitaux généraux ⓘ workhouses ⓘ |
| coinedBy | Michel Foucault NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | medico-psychiatric model of mental illness ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique
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Madness and Civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
boundary between reason and unreason
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exclusion of unreason ⓘ |
| geographicScope |
England
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France NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ other European states ⓘ |
| interpretedAs |
key moment in the historical construction of madness
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mechanism of social control ⓘ response to idleness ⓘ response to poverty ⓘ response to social deviance ⓘ |
| involves |
internment of beggars
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internment of prostitutes ⓘ internment of socially deviant people ⓘ internment of the mad ⓘ internment of the poor ⓘ internment of unemployed people ⓘ internment of vagrants ⓘ mass institutionalization ⓘ |
| precedes |
emergence of modern psychiatry
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medicalization of madness ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
bourgeois moral order
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classical age rationality ⓘ history of madness ⓘ history of psychiatry ⓘ history of social control ⓘ rise of disciplinary institutions ⓘ |
| startCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| theoreticalFramework |
Foucauldian archaeology of knowledge
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genealogical analysis ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early modern Europe ⓘ |
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