This paper aims for the philosophical meaning of the Foucauldian way of double-quotation-marks thinking. It focuses on Michel Foucault's discussions about Artemidore text La Clef des songes in Histoire de la sexualite III, Le souci de soi and attempts to point out how a critical ontology, a genealogical methodology and an axis of aesthetics are implied in such a way of thinking as well as a technique of the self. Foucault showed that Artemidore put the dream images as signifiers and did not search in them for some definite signified. In this way, Foucault insists on his earlier critical position in remarks on Ludwig Binswanger Dream and Existence against Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. Through the confrontations of Freud's theology of meaning and the internalization of meaning, Foucault invented a technique of self from the outside, from the praxis of genealogical subjectivization.
Keywords
Foucault, Artemidore, dream image, Onirocriticon, axis of aesthetics