...We might have to understand power differently. "We must cease once and for all," Foucault has said, "to describe the effects of power in negative terms:...may be gained of him belong to this production."" We may have to question our reflex-like proclivity to understand patients' speaking about themselves...

...of knowledge. This is the feature of it which makes it specifically rational. Max Weber (1964: 339) We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms.... In fact power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth. The...

...and relationships. These "truths" are, in turn, constructed or produced in the operation of power. We must cease once and for all to describe the effects...The individual and the knowledge that may be gained from him belong to this production. (1979, p. 194) When discussing "truths," Foucault is not subscribing...

...work as early as Histoire de la folie and toward which he has been building throughout his career: "We must cease once and for all to describe the effects...that may be gained of him belong to this production." 107 Writing played a similar normalizing and individualizing role in the late eighteenth-century hospital....

...institutions and professionals. The argument is clearly put: "We must cease once and for all to describe power in negative terms: it excludes, it represses,...reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth."28 Legal power creates a reality through the production of scientific knowledge and disciplinary...

...subject polices him/herself within the appropriate disciplinary structures. Further, he insists that "we must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms. ... In fact, power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of objects and rituals of truth"...

...intended to gain "spontaneous consent" by those differential constituencies on which power is practiced: We must cease once and for all to describe the effects...that may be gained of him belong to this production. (DP, 194) To put it in a way that Foucault's commentators, including Dreyfuss and Rabinow, tend to...

...manifestations and evaluations - in short, an entire complex, outside which prohibitions cannot be understood. We must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms - as exclusion, repression, censorship, concealment, eradication. In fact, power produces. It produces...

...states, "is always interactional" despite the negative terms traditionally applied to its effects: "it 'excludes,' it 'represses,' it 'censors,' it 'abstracts,' it 'masks,' it 'conceals' " (Discipline and Punish, p. 194). Instead, he asserts, "Power produces; it produces reality; it produces...

...terms of a dominant structure; rather, Foucault's concept emphasizes the productive nature of power: 'We must cease once and for all to describe the effects...that may be gained of him belong to this production' (Foucault, 1979: 194). Genealogy, then, is a method for investigating the constitution of identities...