RELG 271 Final: Lecture 7

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 271
• Professor: Jon Waind

Document Summary

Lecture 7 - monday, september 21, 2015 deconstructing sex. Sexuality as discourse: the way we talk about these ideas, and the ideas themselves transform. Foucault"s analysis of surveillance and control in modernity idea that society has transformed in these ways: prisons, police, etc: recognition that this has also occurred in sexuality. 19th century sexual discourse: has sexuality become subject to the similar patterns of methodical investigation, surveillance and control. Thus in discoursive terms, the one speaking is the one with the power. Confession as the most highly valued techniques for producing truth. Agency of domination has shifted to the listener. Either confession in a medical or religious sense. Slide 6 ethical question our society has pursued the task of producing true discourses concerning sex and this by adapting the ancient procedure of confession to the rules of scientific discourse. Relg 271 sexual ethics: the confessor to examiner.