Usages de Foucault entre la psychanalyse et le marxisme. Discours de la résistance et pratiques de l’intervention intellectuelle en société

Abstract

Uses of Foucault in Psychoanalysis and Marxism: Discourses of Resistance and Practices of Intellectual Intervention in Society

In this paper I analyze two distinct contemporary perspectives on the Foucauldian concept of power and resistance, namely the perspectives enlightened by Judith Butler’s La vie psychique du pouvoir and by Stéphane Legrand’s Le marxisme oublié de Foucault. Although these two approaches are interesting ways of discussing the Foucauldian concept of resistance and power, they fail to take into account the role that intellectuals play in practices of social emancipation. Instead I develop the concept of “specific intellectual” in order to explore in more depth the Foucauldian concept of resistance and social innovation.

Keywords: Power, Resistance, Specific Intellectual, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Institution, Michel Foucault