ABSTRACT
At the beginning of a lecture on 15 January 1975, Michel Foucault responded to a criticism of an audience member that his research failed to arrive at the experience of persons deemed abnormal. At the time, Foucault responded in the following manner:
At the end of last week's lecture, someone asked me if really I was not mistaken and had given a lecture on expert medico-legal opinion rather than the promised lecture on abnormal individuals. These are not at all the same things, but you will see that starting from the problem of expert medicolegal opinion I will come to the problem of abnormal individuals’. 1
