From: tmesbah-AT-earthlink.net
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:19:00 -0800
Subject: Re: Floating reference



Freud

At 02:40 PM 1/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
>In Foucault's _History of Sexuality_, vol. 1, he writes:
>
>> One must not speak of these "genital causes": so went the phrase -
>> muttered in a muted voice - which the most famous ears of our time
>> overheard one day in 1886, from the mouth of Charcot.
>[pg. 112, Hurley trans.]
>
>I must admit, I'm deathly curious as to who Foucault considers to be
>"the most famous ears of our time." Anyone have any idea whom this is
>a reference to?
>
>----Ben
>