..."the ancient affiliation to a group, sustained by the bonds of blood, tradition, or social class." "Genealogy does not resemble the evolution of a species...dispersion; it is to identify the accidents, the minute deviations—or conversely, the complete reversals—the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty...

...and interpretations operates as the condition of possibility for emerging psychological knowledge. contrary: "To follow the complex course of descent...minute deviations — or conversely, the complete reversals — the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those...

...dispersion of forgotten things. . . . Genealogy does not resemble the evolution of a species. . . . On the contrary, to follow the complex course of descent is to maintain events in their dispersion; it is to identify the accidents, the minute deviations — or the complete...

...discontinuities, ruptures and temporal breaks. As Foucault argues, to employ a genealogical method is to identify the accidents, the minute deviations — or conversely, the complete reversals — the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those...

...genealogists attempt to "maintain passing events in their proper dispersion"; to think genealogically "is to identify the accidents, the minute deviations — or conversely the complete reversals — the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those...

...continues secretly to animate the present, having imposed a predetermined form to all its vicissitudes. Genealogy does not resemble the evolution of a species...the minute deviations— or conversely, the complete reversals— the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those...

...beginnings. Thus, the self is not a unity but is fragmented, differentiated and shaped by accidents: ...to follow the complex course of descent is to maintain...the minute deviations - or conversely, the complete reversals - the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those...

...Foucault does not constitute continuities of old or new traditions. On the contrary, he maintains that to "follow the complex course of descent is to maintain...minute deviations — or conversely, the complete reversals — the errors, the false appraisals, and the faulty calculations that gave birth to those...

...Foucault contrasts the quest for an origin (Ursprung) against the preferred tracing of descent (Herkunft): "to follow the complex course of descent is to maintain...in their proper dispersion; it is to identify the minute deviations — or conversely, the complete reversals — the errors, the false appraisals, and...

...Herkunft, genealogy "does not pretend to go back in time to restore an unbroken continuity. [. . .] Genealogy does not resemble the evolution of a species...not map the destiny of a people. On the contrary, genealogy follows the complex course of descent to maintain passing events in their proper dispersion...