Zbrodnia bez motywu. Foucault i problem poczytalności w psychiatrii i sądownictwie XIX wieku

Mateusz Ozimek

doi:10.18778/1689-4286.61.01

Authors

Mateusz Ozimek Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1689-4286.61.01

Keywords:

Michel Foucault, problematizations, legal psychiatry, Pierre Rivière, instincts, Henriette Cornier

Abstract

The article refers to the problem of crime without reason described by Michel Foucault. The author presents two cases from the first half of the 19th century – Pierre Rivière and Henriette Cornier. These cases are analyzed in terms of strategies of power adopted by psychiatry and the legal system towards the Other who had committed an inexplicable crime and who could not be described by any of the recognized forms of madness. The impasse between medical and legal discourses is presented as an example of problematization — a method used by Foucault in the last years of his work. One of the consequences of psychiatry’s efforts to solve the problem of crime without motive was the creation of instincts and drives as scientific objects, which shows that such objects can arise at the junction of various power relations and can even be created merely as instruments to exercise power.

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