Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer TheoryColumbia University Press, 5. nóv. 2009 - 304 síður Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In this earlier volume, Foucault recasts Western rationalism as a project that both produces and represses sexual deviants, calling out the complicity of modern science and the exclusionary nature of family morality. By reclaiming these deft moves, Lynne Huffer teases out exciting new strands of Foucauldian thought. She then revisits the theorist's ethical work in light of these discoveries, divining an ethics of eros that sees sexuality as a lived experience we are repeatedly called on to remember. Throughout her study, Huffer weaves her own experiences together with Foucault's, sampling from unpublished interviews and other archived materials in order to intimately rework the problem of sexuality as a product of reason. |
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... Freud, Lacan does not belong here, except as a movement out the door, and this book explains why that is so. Indeed, one of my goals in my encounter with Madness is to rethink splitting—and split subjectivity—from a nonpsychoanalytic ...
... Freud, Lacan does not belong here, except as a movement out the door, and this book explains why that is so. Indeed, one of my goals in my encounter with Madness is to rethink splitting—and split subjectivity—from a nonpsychoanalytic ...
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... Freud, Marx, and early Heidegger.52 Similarly, Lois McNay's otherwise lucid feminist reading of Foucault too easily dismisses Madness for its “tendency to essentialize a certain experience of alterity.”53 Agreeing with Habermas, McNay ...
... Freud, Marx, and early Heidegger.52 Similarly, Lois McNay's otherwise lucid feminist reading of Foucault too easily dismisses Madness for its “tendency to essentialize a certain experience of alterity.”53 Agreeing with Habermas, McNay ...
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... Freud in Madness as the culmination of his critique of morality. In Insult, Eribon asserts, somewhat polemically, that “it is urgent and necessary to think outside the limits of psychoanalysis” (xix) since it is, in his view, “nothing ...
... Freud in Madness as the culmination of his critique of morality. In Insult, Eribon asserts, somewhat polemically, that “it is urgent and necessary to think outside the limits of psychoanalysis” (xix) since it is, in his view, “nothing ...
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... Freudian sexuality that constitutes Sexuality One. It is only from the perspective we have on Freud in Madness that we can “get” the irony of Foucault's reengagement of him in Sexuality One. Interlude: Close Encounters In reading and ...
... Freudian sexuality that constitutes Sexuality One. It is only from the perspective we have on Freud in Madness that we can “get” the irony of Foucault's reengagement of him in Sexuality One. Interlude: Close Encounters In reading and ...
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... in Madness a despotic coup de force (F56) or “takeover” (M 44) by Cartesian rationalism and the equally despotic Freudian coup that captures the psyche in a patriarchal system. As an autobiographical remark introduction 37.
... in Madness a despotic coup de force (F56) or “takeover” (M 44) by Cartesian rationalism and the equally despotic Freudian coup that captures the psyche in a patriarchal system. As an autobiographical remark introduction 37.
Efni
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1 How We Became Queer | 44 |
2 Queer Moralities | 87 |
3 Unraveling the Queer Psyche | 127 |
4 A Queer Nephew | 194 |
5 A Political Ethic of Eros | 242 |
Notes | 281 |
Works Cited | 313 |
Index | 325 |
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