The History of Sexuality by Foucault
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มี.ค. 2015
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Video starts at 1:24
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This is really funny; "I subjected myself to this torture, and I loved it"
We are talking about Foucault here, a well known sadomasochist
made what my lecturer said in two hours a lot more concise so thank you!
lol so true
Really comprehensive and easy to follow review, thank you!
....please, please keep up the exquisitely delivered , erudite discourse!!!
I had to read an excerpt from this in an undergrad English course and write a reaponse. I completely bullshitted it and wrote nonsense about filthy sexual acts, banking on the hope that the professor wouldn't actually read it. I got an A.
How did you find out about this book?
Foucault’s main objective of Vol. 1 is not necessarily the evolution of how individuals viewed sex as a phenomena. His objective is to give a structured explanation as to why we are excited to posit we are repressed, and how that discourse grew (p. 9) The Christian confession is definitely a key pole, like you mentioned, but the crucial part you skimmed over is the methods of power that created discourses that specified sexualities and thereby created new bodies of “Truth” (p. 92). I’m not a Foucault expert but I do think it’s important to stress the specific terms he used.
Have you read other book, like the Power and Knowledge? can you do a review on it? thanks for the video.
+HawreKoyi1 I haven't! I haven't had much of a chance to read Foucault (this book I really had to force myself to read) but if I do I'll do a review!
Your explanation is good. I can understand better
I enjoyed that, well put :)
Yea I loved the brief introduction you gave about Foucault idea on sexuality. Can you recommend any pdf book for me
Emmanuel Kofi Yeboah I hope you got the book recommendation
I'd suggest also reading Nietsche's 'Geneology of Morals'. He distinguishes different moral perspectives of different groups. The powerful elite regard their 'winner' moral views as 'good' and use them to their advantage; while the opposing weak elite reject such views as 'evil' and believe they're designed only to perpetuate the advantage of the powerful. Through using concepts like sin and shame they invent a new morality to try to wrest social control from the powerful. Nietsche criticised christianity for 'siding with everything that is weak and pitiable in humanity'. in order to enslave it. In the contemporary scheme of things in the west, christianity is largely a spent force, and its place has been taken by intellectuals who use new conceptions of condemnation and shame to wrest control from the powerful. Same story, different players, new 'sins'. Thus Spake Zarathrustra.
Oldfart2225
Are you criticizing the use of shame and condemnation to control power?
Could you make a more detailed video about the various stages of the development of sexuality over the years ?
Does Foucault talk about deconstruction anything?
Do you read French... or is the book translated? Either way, bravo, big help to me!!
Yes it is
Loved this
Yeah gurl. You killed this! Foucault is a major bae so I'm thrilled that you made this video! :D
Thank you! I just had to talk about him :).
Foucault is very interesting and important in the discussion of philosophy. Particularly on hermeneutics and hegemony. These two subjects are usually the main themes of his historiographies with the titled subject providing structure. It's helpful to consider how he describes mechanisms of power affecting meaning throughout the eras But he was kind of a jerk as a person. As in "sexual predator" caliber jerk.
But I like his books too!
"major bae" 😂😂 wtf? that doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense
Ablejack Courtney
You can't call foucault a "jerk" or "predator" without expressing your own esteem for repressive westerncentric power.
What does major bae mean?
Awesome, thank you!
It's good to read Madness and Civilisation and then Discipline and Punish to see how Foucault extrapolates his principles of expert discourse creating knowledge/power. He makes the same essential points across all his work regarding the way that power diffuses - micro power influencing every aspect of our behaviour...
What is micro power and how does it influence our behaviour? Any examples?
cool, you make him almost understandable :)
haha thank you! I tried
You have to watch out with Foucault. He plays a bit fast and loose with historical accuracy.
YES! Perfectly put. The man drives me nuts. He was a genius. But he drives me nuts.
are you from Canada?
I think so
I see you, back there, house of leaves.
Thank you
SuperPugCat You are welcome
"making it (sex) pathological, like Freud did". Can you expand more on what you mean by this?
I think she's referring to how Freud positioned sexuality as being rooted within the compulsive drives of the unconscious mind - the Id, in his topographical model.
@@mulefa1 that may be true, but it'd be nice to hear from our presenter. But i would suggest this statement is ill-advised and probably via secondary sources.
you used several weeks on this book. this shows how hoplessly disconnected knowledge has become from itself, we simply have too much of it. the general tendency towards differentiation will certainly lead humanity into a perpetual state of anomie. I find that listening to audoiobooks in high speeds can aid in getting through more material in limited time, but there simply is not enough time. lets hope there will be fruitful progress in some forms of artificial intelligence to help us.
Yeah hopefully logic machines can help us consume anti-binary post structuralist theory.
"Sort of This" "Sort of That" and again "we read sort of these" after "reading sort of those" furthermore, sort of all the books and authors try to "sort the things" in "sort of this and sort of that" because that's how life is explained, and the history of sexuality is written by the guy who was actually "Sorf of This & Sort of That".
by the way, I subscribed. Thank you, keep it up.
thats a byflugian mythology book ?
i hate that book because byflugian uses the roman equivalent to discribe greek mythology such as minerva to describe the birth of athena and it miss spells lot of the norse gods... pisses me off.
Gooooood. From Pakistan
the history of sexuality is a masterpiece
Primum vivere deinde philosophari...
Freud didn't pathologize sex. It was central to his theory of development. He did unfortunately associate different expressions of sexuality with different stages of maturity, but in historical context, he was the first European to really insist that pleasure was a valid motive for sex.
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You are beautiful 🤩
...you got a fly under your lower lipp....
Speaking of sexuality, I find you to be very cute!
Sexuality doesn't exist on its own. You are expressing repressive power through your sexual advances.
Sure! I don’t mind that, or if I have understood what you meant here. I also do not have much conscious intention to keep it repressed. She is cute, probably a bit older than me, but still i would not mind having sex with her if she were around and if she was interested in me as well, and these were what was going through my mind as i was watching this video.
dipro001
No, your power is repressive towards her. You are objectifying her as a sexual object, and that is oppressive to her, as a woman, to not be treated as a sexual object when she is engaging in the historically male dominated field of philosophy.
I am not sure how you are expecting me to react to this. As a male who grew up in not one but two patriarchial societies, of course, I have toxic behavioral pattenrs. Judging from your fluent English, I am sure you too are part of the web of patriarchy as any English speaking nation is today, regardless of your sex and gender. I am open to suggestions and ideas, and I constantly look for feedback.
Please explain how sexual interest is objectification.
Please explain how appreciation of feminine beauty is objectification
Please explain how you yourself are not objectifying her by deeming her so fragile that a mere comment is enough make her an object.
All branches of academia are male-dominated, philosophy is nothing new.
Looking forward to a hearing a good response. Thank you!
dipro001
Women have a history of being treated as sexual objects, and it is exhausting for me to even come here and read your comments enforcing such marginalization exactly when she she attempts to engage in this historically patriarchy dominated activity. She is clearly not on here posting post structural philosophy videos for you to hit on her, yet you can't go 7 min without hitting on someone who you have no chance of having sex with. Your expression of toxic masculinity is more important to you than how it is likely to make her feel. It's a prime example of an interaction that society says is neutral, but in reality is an oppressive use of the power and privilege the social structure gives you, as a man, over women.
Video summary:
Cute girl talks about anecdotes from Foucault's seminal work for 6 minutes, completely missing his arc of sexuality as a tool of yielding power and discipline; concepts which he had been nurturing in other previous books.