10 march 1971

pp. 167-182

in: Michel Foucault, Lectures on the will to know and Oedipal knowledge, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

Purification is an archaic rite; but, in the course of an evolution which has to be traced, it will be articulated on two oppositions which were originally foreign to it: criminality/innocence ignorance/knowledge.