ABSTRACT Foucault hit Psychiatry hard with his History of Madness. He showed the meticulous exercises of violence that took place in the General Hospital of Paris in the name of science and normality. From the rejection to such normality, he gave his rejection to psychoanalysis, understood as normalizing. From his aestheticization of madness, assumed as the revealing discourse of modern Anti-reason, he passed to the consideration of the psychoanalytic device as analogous to that of the Christian confession, and to the belief that the cultural weight given to sex did not come from drives, it was purely discursive effect.