7/5/2023 0 Comments I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, a... by Michel Foucault![]() ![]() Foucaults reconstruction of the case is a brilliant exploration of the roots of our contemporary views of madness, justice, and crime. Medical authority was challenging law, branches of government were vying. The Rivire case, he points out, occurred at a time when many professions were contending for status and power. ![]() Michel Foucault, author of Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish, collected the relevant documents of the case, including medical and legal testimony, police records. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale. ![]() On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Book Synopsis To free his father and himself from his mothers tyranny, Pierre Rivire decided to kill her. ![]()
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