One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Relation to Foucaults...

The movie, â€Å"One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest†, is a film that relates to Foucault’s analysis of discipline and punishment. Foucault’s argument is that power works in a disciplinary way in current society. The movie can relate to this because the institution that the movie took place in was ran using Foucault’s disciplinary technique. There are many scenes from the film that give an analysis of Foucault’s argument. Foucault believes that people have the power to punish the docile bodies that they produce. Foucault argues in â€Å"The Carceral† that, â€Å"The least act of disobedience is punished and the best way of avoiding serious offences is to punish the most minor offences very severely†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Foucault 1977: 294). In the movie, they used this†¦show more content†¦When McMurphy came to the institution, he was seen as being a problem. This is because he was going against Foucault’s argument of being docile. He did not want to conform to that. McMurphy soon realized that many of the patients were in the institution voluntarily, which caused for him to become more disobedient. He always tried to go against the nurses by telling the patients that they aren’t lunatics. He would consistently break the rules by trying to change the routine, by taking the patients fishing, teaching them to play basketball, and by sneaking in alcohol and girls during the hours of dark. Foucault would say that McMurphy was an anarchist rather than a conformist. Harding from the movie is an example of what Foucault would describe as a docile body. He is subjected, used, transformed, and improved by Nurse Ratched. He doesn’t fall under the influence of McMurphy like some of the other patients do, at least right away. He was always scared to change the routine that Nurse Ratched set in stone for them. He was unsure whether or not to vote for the change of watching the World Series rather than having the mentoring session. Also, there was a scene where he stood up and raised his voice during a session but quickly realized what he had done and continuously pleaded that he was sorry to Nurse Ratched because he knew he wasn’t supposed to do that. Nurse Ratched doesn’t like for the patients toShow MoreRelatedThe Sociology Of Health And Mental Illness3181 Words   |  13 PagesMichel Foucault and Erving Goffman, on the sociology of health and mental illness. Word count: 3,132 John Goulder! 1 ï ¿ ¼Introduction: Mental Health as Disparate Social Object Antipsychiatry was as much a cultural phenomenon as an academic or institutional one. Whilst the work of Laing (1960) and Szasz (1960) can be rooted in the Fruedo-Marxist ‘methodological individualism’ of critical theory (Rogers Pilgrim, 2010: 14), or even a broader constructionist critique of medical truth, it just as easily lends