The article aims at reconstructing how pain is used in contemporary societies in the process of engraving power. Firstly, a social phenomenological analysis of pain is conducted: Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s ideas are used for clarifying the experience of pain itself; Elaine Scarry’s analyses are overviewed in order to reconstruct how pain contributes to the establishing of power. Secondly, this complex approach is applied in early modern context: the parallel processes of the decline of a transcendental and the emergence of a medical interpretation of pain is introduced, along with the marginalization of violence. Thirdly, the era characterized by the triumph of medical pain management is analysed: it is argued that the constitutive role of pain in establishing power does not cease to exist with the emergence of technologies of discursive governance (Foucault); it is an open question, what sort of power is engraved through pain understood in strictly medical frames.

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间接疼痛的力量：医疗疼痛管理的历史现象学

本文旨在重构当代社会如何在雕刻权力的过程中使用疼痛。首先，对疼痛进行社会现象学分析：胡塞尔和梅洛-庞蒂的思想被用于阐明疼痛本身的经验；伊莱恩·斯卡里 (Elaine Scarry) 的分析进行了概述，以重建疼痛如何促成权力的建立。其次，这种复杂的方法适用于早期现代背景：先验的衰落和对疼痛的医学解释的出现的平行过程被引入，以及暴力的边缘化。第三，分析了以医疗疼痛管理胜利为特征的时代：有人认为，随着话语治理技术的出现（福柯），痛苦在建立权力中的构成性作用并没有消失；这是一个悬而未决的问题，什么样的力量是通过严格医学框架理解的疼痛来雕刻的。