Unreliability, Psychology, Liberty
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
Unreliability, Psychology, Liberty Well we certainly get our fill of the unreliable narrator in Part 2 of Lolita. First, H.H. can’t remember his and Lolita’s travel itinerary (which contrast suspiciously with his seemingly photographic memory earlier). On their second cross-country trip there is the question of weather or not someone is following H.H. and Lolita, […]
Unreliability, Psychology, Liberty
Tags: Freud, liberation, repressive hypothesis, truth
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Depressing to Optimistic
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Depressing to Optimistic Parts Four and Five of Foucault’s The History of Sexuality were quite an emotional rollercoaster. Foucault beings by discussing the “juridico-discursive” idea of power, and then criticizing it and explaining his own theory of power – though I found both ideas quite depressing. Foucault claims that the “juridico-discursive” idea of power underlies […]
Depressing to Optimistic
Tags: bio-power, deployment of sexuality, juridico-discursive, liberation, power, power over life, repression, repressive hypothesis, right of death, sexual regulation, Thunder Cats, truth
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Sexual Discourse
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Sexual Discourse Michel Foucault is a tricky guy. He completely fools the reader while he is summarizing the history of sexual repression, beginning with the Victorian Era. He steadily goes through the thought process of what we all believe to be the true political history of our sexual attitudes. He calls these ideas the repressive […]
Sexual Discourse
Tags: adolescence, conversaton, discourse, education, gays, homosexuality, repressive hypothesis, restriction, teens
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Discourse on Sex and Sexuality
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Discourse on Sex and Sexuality In Part One of The History of Sexuality, Michael Foucault poses the question: “Did the critical discourse that addresses itself to repression come to act as a roadblock to a power mechanism that had operated unchallenged up to that point, or is it not in fact part of the same […]
Discourse on Sex and Sexuality
Tags: confession, discourse, liberation, repressive hypothesis, X-Rated America
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