ABSTRACT
Spirituality is an idiosyncratic concept in the work of Foucault, which might best be characterized as an 'intensity without a spirit'. Foucault shared with the surrealists an interest in 'a new space of thought created by a radical critique of rationality and certainty', without, however, taking on board the wider surrealist fascination with religious ideas. Through this regime of political rationality, the subject form of the rational autonomous individual has since the Enlightenment become the norm in Western culture. The psy-sciences in general and Freudian psychoanalysis in particular are Foucault's betes noires in his middle work. Foucault's normative horizon is that freedom practices should be developed as much as possible by as many persons as possible. Foucault's historicizing of the Western subject leads him to ancient Greek and Hellenist forms of subjectivity in his final works.
