Hétérotopie et biopouvoir: l’impact de l’institut psychiatrique sur les patients chez Unica Zürn, Sara Stridsberg et Samuel Fuller
Heterotopy and biopower: study of the place’s impact on the patient’s bodies in psychiatric institutions in Unica Zürn’s, Sara Stridberg’s and Samuel Fuller’s works of fiction

Summary/Abstract: The following paper focuses on the impact of psychiatric institution on the bodies of patients in works by Unica Zürn, Sara Stridsberg and Samuel Fuller. Using a Foucaldian approach, one is led to understand the psychiatric ward as an heterotopy : a place where time and space are organized differently from the outside world. What power dynamics take place in such an institution? The author reflects on how writers and cinematographers both portray and criticize the mental health hospital with the means of cinema and literature.

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