Sexuality Quotes by Michel Foucault

12 Sexuality quotes by Michel Foucault

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Foucault treats sexuality as a battlefield of language and authority. In these twelve reflections he unpacks how societies construct desire, offering a compact yet potent critique of power dynamics.

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“We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.”

Michel Foucault

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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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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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Sexual behavior is not, as is too often assumed, a superimposition of, on the one hand, desires which derive from natural instincts,…

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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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Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is…

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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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In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those…

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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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“The question I would like to pose is not, Why are we repressed? but rather, Why do we say, with so much…

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“It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than…

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“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with…

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Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European…

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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

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