RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Heterosexuality, Judith Butler, Psychoanalytic Theory
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On the possibilities of resistance and resignification - freud and foucault (judith. Component of personality later developed to deal with reality (express impulses in a reasonable way) Morals and guidelines for judgments > civilize and perfect us. Psychoanalytic theory allows the psyche to be a space of resistance. Judith butler - feminist and queer theorist (identity, gender, subject) In gap between 1st time and the repetition, possible for resignification (say things differently) Prison is the most infiltrating of all powers thus far. Foucault: prisoner"s body is formed and reformed by power; making of identity as prisoner, formulate body as a subject . Foucault: subjectivation = soul as prison of the body. Disciplinary power in prison focus subject - compulsory production. Compulsory production, regulative, entailing - approximate an ideal of how one should behave in prison. Creates and provides the soul (normative ideal) for the prisoner"s body. The identity becomes your own prison (identity imprisons you)
