The enunciation as a category of analysis in the production of the discourse(s) in Foucault

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the idea that the enunciation may be a probable category of analysis, in an attempt to think the discourse(s), like its generation, in the theoretical framework proposed by Michel Foucault (1926-1984). The French Philosopher, developed the statement as category of analysis, in works like The Order of Things (1966) and The Archeology of Knowledge (1969), in a frame capable of allowing a certain autonomy to the formulation of a concept. In this way, the enunciation in the attempt to generate this same to a theory to be put up, would allow the gravitation in the mentioned discourses produced by the individual. The enunciation, in the Foucault’s thought, does not refer in stricto sensu to a grammatical or strictly linguistic framework, but allows the confluence in the formation of theoretical notions, or even in the frame of the discourse(s), making possible the consonance of ideas that base the discourses that prevail in the human sciences and wich outline de status quo. Being Foucault’s proposition of enunciation is a category not necessarily scientific, that is, without the magnitude of a composition of truth, as well as of a “true saying”. The enunciation, in the author’s proposal, contrasts with the discourse that deals with the nomenclature of truth and the mechanisms that institute the constant production of it, and wich they grant the epistemological conceptions (wich constitute epistemologies in force) in social, political, historical e and cultural spaces.