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The paper investigates how Foucault engages with Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology in his manuscripts from the 1950s. Foucault criticizes transcendental phenomenology for having excluded from philosophical thought the deviations from the norms of shared experience. The problem of the relationship between the normal and the pathological point to psychology and anthropology as necessary pathways within phenomenology to measure what is distinct about humanity. However, these disciplines are not without their problems, since they presuppose an essence in humanity.