UNI101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erotic Art, Libido, Psychopathy
5 Jan 2014
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Reverse discourse/counter discourse = people reclaiming terminology to speak on their own behalf (ex. dyke) Foucault says there is always oppressive power, but there is always resistance to that power. For freud, power represses sexuality by introducing shame. For foucault, power operates to produce those types of sexualities. Foucault says sexuality isn"t a drive but a construct that allows power to operate so perversion isn"t something that"s repressed; it"s produced as a category. Foucault says erotic art is about what"s pleasurable, but the science of sexuality is about what"s permissible. Foucault wants to know what knowledge is being produced by institutions and how sex gets put into discourse. Talking about sex doesn"t challenge power so much as it allows power to operate in different ways. The ascent of medical authority came about during the enlightenment when there was growing trust in medicine and that its practitioners were rational, truthful, and objective.
