Sexuality Quotes by Michel Foucault

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In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated on particular tastes or practices (the sexuality of the invert, the gerontophile, the fetishist), those which, in a diffuse manner, invest relationships (the sexuality of doctor and patient, teacher and student, psychiatrist and mental patient),…

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Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex…

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On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression of…

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“People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went about pretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our…

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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that…

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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of…

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What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to…

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People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which everything-our discourses,…

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One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

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“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of punishment that certainly concerns the body itself: rationing of food, sexual deprivation, corporal punishment, solitary confinement … There remains, therefore, a trace of ‘torture’ in the modern mechanisms of criminal justice – a trace that has…

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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

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I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

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Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc.…

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What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no, but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse. It needs to be considered as a productive network which runs through the whole social body, much more than as…

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“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of truth––was able to make what does not exist (madness, disease, delinquency, sexuality), nonetheless become something, something however that continues not to exist. That is to say, what I would like to show is not how an…

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“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and…

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