6 january 1971

pp. 31-54

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

Abstract

I STARTED WITH TWO models of analysis. In one (which seems to me to characterize the philosophical tradition), the will to know (savoir) comes from a prior knowledge of which it is at once the deployment, the dislocation, and the inner retardation.