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Comparison Of Sigmund Freud And Michel Foucault

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Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault are two of the very influential thinkers of early twentieth century. Sigmund Freud a c is mainly renowned as the “Father of psycho analysis”. His works are mainly on the complex-system of mind and the psychoanalysis (Thornton, 2001, p. 1). Foucault says, "the goal of my work during the last twenty years has not been to analyze the phenomena of power, nor to elaborate the foundations of such an analysis. My objective, instead, has been to create a history of the different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects. "(Rabinow,1991,p.8). Foucault presented his themes of work through three mode of objectification of the subject. They are:-The first mode of objectification is called as 'Dividing practices '. He observed the systematic social or cultural categorisation of different classes thus objectifying the subject either by a process of division within himself or from the rest of the society. He explained this method with various famous examples from the society, they were isolation of the lepers from the rest of the society in the middle ages or the confinement of the insane and poor in Paris in 1656. This tends to give the subject two different identities, one social and the other personal. This method of objectification usually shows a division in the spatial sense but always shows in a social one.(Rabinow,1991,p.8). The second mode of objectification is
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