ENGL 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Internalized Oppression, Moral Treatment
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The distinction between the classical age of con nement and the age of reason. Doesn"t attack the classical age: they didn"t have the science that they had in the age of reason. During the age of reason: instead of trying to know madness they tried to master madness, desire to control that in which is deviant. Doesn"t believe that tuke is all good: uses the fear of coercion and coercion, tuke uses the desire of esteem. Wants them to suppress their madness not solve it. Tuke uses the internalizing of the esteem. Poe was familiar with the moral treatment: uses the policing" of themselves. Interested in theorizing power: thinks that the age of reason is worse, fear of power struggle, we have all become our own asylum keepers . Terrorized by the way er have internalized oppression. Interested with how the human consciousness is sti ed.
