Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The History of Sexuality


This particular section of text found fairly early in this weeks reading of Foucault's History of Sexuality struck me as interesting considering the film that we viewed this week. The father seemed to be forced into telling his story, while the son/filmmaker pried for more information. The passage explicitly say that when a confession is not spontaneous or dictated by some interval the confession is wrung out by another. Even in a peaceful society between family members this statement holds true. Are not we constantly asking the whereabouts or actions of the people around us if it hasn't already been told. Is that not how we start most conversations now? It seems rather odd that even on a basic level simple actions and ideals are always questioned, as if since the human has a mouth to speak with he should always use it to say his business.
Most of the time we don't even think of self analysis anymore since the idea of confession is so self inherent.

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