SOC209H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Libido, Sexual Repression, Sodomy
Lecture 3: Notes
Will to Know
Whe he’s talkig aout disourse, he is’t talkig aout the literal eaig of dialogue, ut
actually a metaphor for articulating ideas and articulating ideas for knowledge. How language is
associated with power.
History of sexuality was a series of books that were not completed. He had in mind all the texts
we talked about such as Freud, Kraft Ebing. History of sexuality is not actually the history of
sexuality. It is actually how we think about sexuality.
The phrase will to knowledge, is how we came to know about sex.
He was writing in a political context in France post 1968. In the context of a global liberation
movement. He was trying to understand sex and power, and its relationship to liberation.
Some of the ideals about the European enlightenment. Used science to uncover the world.
Science rather than religion to find knowledge. The idea of revolution and liberation guided a
lot of the ideas that came out of the enlightenment.
Victorian regime:
Victoria era was 1837-1901. Before this era sex was free and through collusion of cultural and
religious authority and codes of conduct, sex was shackled. We Europeans were then
constrained by a prudish, hypocritical code of sexual repression.
Cult of true womanhood where people were expected to be purity. It was basically banning
oe’s seualit ad it as hporitial eause e ould go to rothels, prostitutio, et.
The modern invention of hoosexuals ad thus, heterosexuals
With the emergence of sexology in the 1900s, where words like homosexuality emerged.
Foucalt sees this period as a scientific and discursive explosion of sex. He sees this as an era of
coming out of sexual repression. Scientists of sex saw that they were departing from a regime
of Victorian sexual repression.
With the new word being discovered homophobia, homosexuality became relevant.
Foucault said it’s ot just sae se ehaior, its rather the adet of the idiidual. So the
regulation moves from the kinds of acts you are doing, to the kind of person you are.
Homosexual was now a species, that was catalogued by science. It also meant cataloguing
heterosexuality as well.
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