Start living the way Michel Foucault

Start living the way Michel Foucault, frankly, went wrong.

He was born in 1926 in a provincial French town of Poitiers. His father, Paul Foucault was respected in the district surgeon, Professor of Medicine - and thus, stability and social significance were provided not only him but also his son. Of course, provided that the child will continue dynasty (his grandfather was also a physician). However, a child from such a perspective was sick. Disgust aroused in him and he dad, who did not want a future thinker assimilate.

What was not so simple. Before the birth of a boy "booked" the name of Paul - so the tradition was called men in the family father. But my mother wanted a different name and insisted the child "supplied" the second - the so-called baby and Paul-Michel. He himself seemed like Michelle - if only to feel no kinship with the Father. In addition, Polmishel "in the school easily become a" Pulcinella "- the nickname stuck firmly: he, painful short-sighted boy, not the happiest success in school, insulting nickname, sooner or later there would be ...

Growing up and finding an independent, Foucault, and got rid of the "Fields" in its name, and from family responsibilities to become a doctor. In a sense, helped a mother again: though she was a daughter of the doctor, but supported the decision of his son to study the humanities. Father a little sad: on his feet, he still sent his younger brother Michel, is not so obstinate.

Michelle graduated from high school, decided to enroll in the Ecole Normale Supérieure - one of the most prestigious universities in France. Go failed, but the second attempt gave a stunning result: up to exams Michelle was the fourth in France!

Freak lone

Farewell to the family ended a quarrel with his father, all doldonivshim on medical careers. By this time, Michelle is fully aware of his own homosexuality, which was then considered illegal.

Because of all this in twenty years of Foucault, who came to study in Paris, has developed an unusually bad temper. The first university courses were accompanied by nothing but trouble. Michelle drank somewhere procured drugs. Continuing debauched, and his antics differed brutal originality: once slashed himself with a razor, and once it stopped hopping around with his knife for some students. Despite these "funny stories", his mind is not clouded. Students read the books interested him and was always ready to academic disputes, has surprised everyone with his erudition and flexible thinking.

But with fellow students and neighbors in your dorm relations were difficult. Participating is a scientific dispute - a pretty thing. But they Foucault so excited that he could arrange a fight. He lived in a room that he shared with five students, whom could not stand, and they - it. Students him, of course, aside: this is the crazy?

Because of the tensions caused by the proximity of his unpleasant people can not openly sell their sexual orientation, or simply relax, the life of Michel became a torture. In 1948, he swallowed pills, trying both to commit suicide. After that, his father dragged him to the Paris hospital of St. Anne to the famous specialist, where Michelle first met with a psychiatrist. But as a result of this incident, Foucault was a separate room - life has become easier.

Young Foucault was very upset by his homosexuality. Shame it felt society, but more authoritatively about it says psychiatrist in an effort to scientifically substantiate the inferiority of gay people and making diagnoses-sentences. "But where does such a special status of psychiatry? From what she decides what is normal, and that - no?" - Always thought Foucault, and later these questions, he opened a whole theory.