O ser como devir e a vida como desvio: Foucault leitor de Freud e de Bichat

Abstract

We will return to certain similarities between Bichat and Freud indicated by Foucault in The Birth of the Clinic in order to understand the Foucauldian notion of the clinic as an eminently modern experience of seeing and talking about the singularity of individuals. Using the theses of The order of Things, we will try to show that, for Foucault, if Freud and Bichat were able to argue, each in their own way, that life is a singular way of resisting death, it is because, in modernity: 1) being can be thought of as becoming, that is, as intrinsically historical and 2) life, as well as illness, can be thought of as essentially deviant.