Meanings
plural régimes
- alternativeAlternative spelling of regime.
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There are many “Foucaults” — whether they are all texts, or features in a network of institutional power, a régime of truth and knowledge, or the discourse of the author and his works. Personalities like Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) silenced condemnation of madness. He abolished régimes of silence that reformers had employed. He made the mad talk. But he also developed the structure which included the medical personage — him — as omnipotent and quasi-divine.
1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, pages 5 and 46 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN)
Origin
- Frenchrégime
- Englishrégime
Unadapted borrowing from French régime.
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