Foucault, Madness and Civilization, 199-220

Chapter The Great Fear shows the return of madness and unreason to the throws of society.  The madman had come to be seen as a social individual.  They were basically seen as good individuals and good people but with “cracked heads.” In the mid-18^th century people began to fear the disease that spread through the houses of confinement known as “prison fevers”, these houses had become unpopular and it was considered “a terrible ulcer upon the public body.” Everything about these places repulsed the people of the cities and they wanted nothing to do with them. The relationship between madness and morality is a theme of nineteenth century psychology. For Foucault I see that psychology is more about morality than science, and as often stated by other critiques and I tend to agree that psychology is only present when this morality and madness are linked.