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 * __Notes on Michel Foucault The History of Sexuality, Volume 1__**

p.20 "Under the authority of a language that had been carefully expurgated so that it was no longer directly named, sex was taken charge of, tracked down as it were, by a discourse that aimed to allow it no obscurity, no respite...This scheme for transforming sex into discourse had been devised long before in ascetic and monastic setting." The last sentence seems to summarize that Part II is about "transforming sex into discourse." In this first chapter, "Repressive Hypothesis." it sounds like Foucault is implying that there was some sort of conspiracy by the Catholic church to excise all discussion of sex from everyday communication, change its meaning from "fun" to "sin", and change the "allowed" setting of where it was discussed from secular discourse to holy confession. p.26 "Through the political economy of population, there was formed a whole grid of observations regarding sex." Reading in self-org class also discussed population in Victorian England. Reference Amartya Sen "Population: Delusions and Reality." 1994 p.35 "What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret." p. 38 "On the other hand, what came under scrutiny was the sexuality of children, mad men and women, and criminals; the sensuality of those who did not like the opposite sex; reveries, obsessions, petty manias, or great transports of rage." This reminds me of the presidential plenary at the 4S conference in Montreal this past weekend. The third presenter (Dr. Wardhill??!?!?) showed a lof of pictures by amateur photographer and psychiatrist Diamond from the Victorian era. She commented on how these posed and stylized before/after pictures, while contributing to the regard of psychology as an effective practice, also contributed to the objectification of patients as their psychiatric illness. p.41 "It may be the case that the intervention of the Church in conjugal sexuality and its rejection of 'frauds' against procreation had lost much of their insistence over the previous two hundred years. But medicine made a forceful entry into the pleasures of the couple: it created an entire organic, functional, or mental pathology arising out of 'incomplete' sexual practices." Erectile Dysfunction is a big business. The Catholic Church was a big business. maybe they focused on the "sin" of sex because they could charge wealthy people money to atone for their sexual sins p.42 more conspiracy theory P43 Talks about perverts being objectified as their unnatural disease name, e.g. "…there were Krafft-Ebing's zoophiles and zooerasts, Rohleder's auto-monosexualists; and later, mixoscopophiles, gynecomasts, presbyophiles, sexoesthetic inverts and dyspareunist women." P48 "Pleasure and power do not cancel or turn back against one another; they seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another. They are linked together by complex mechanisms and devices of excitation and excitement. We must therefore abandon the hypothesis that modern industrial societies ushered in an age of increased sexual repression. We have not only witnessed a visible explosion of unorthodox sexualities…[but also] the proliferation of specific pleasures and the multiplication of disparate sexualities." P59 "We have since become a singularly confessing society. The confession has spread its effects far and wide. It plays a part in justice, medicine, education, family relationships, and love relations, in the most ordinary affairs of everyday life…Western man has become a confessing animal." P65 "…how did this immense and traditional extortion of the sexual confession come to be constituted in scientific terms?" P66 "the principle of a latency essential to sexuality made it possible to link the forcing of a difficult confession to a scientific practice" P71 "Scientia sexualis" = "subtle ars erotica" for the West P83-84 principle features of political analysis of power in the West P89 "the law constitutes desire"
 * The negative relation (between power and sex)
 * The insistence of the rule (binary system of description illicit v. licit, deciphered in relation to law, ruled by law)
 * The cycle of prohibition ("Renounce yourself or suffer the penalty of being supressed; do not appear if you do not want to disappear. Your existence will be maintained only at the cost of your nullification. Power constraints sex only through a taboo that plays on the alternative between two nonexistencies.")
 * The logic of censorship (repeats argument from the cycle of prohibition)
 * The uniformity of apparatus (power over sex repeated at all levels of hierarchy, in all relationships)

P98 P103 Strategies of power-knowledge Hysterization of women's bodies Pedagogization of children's sex Socialization of procreative behavior Psychiatrization of perverse pleasure P108 "…since the eighteenth century, the family has become an obligatory locus of affects, feelings, love; that sexuality has its privileged point of development in the family; that for this reason sexuality is 'incestuous' from the start."
 * The rule of immanence ("…'local center' of power-knowledge")
 * Rules of continuous variations ("Relations of power-knowledge are not static…")
 * The rule of double conditioning (This relates back to what Derrida calls the center being on the outside; P99 "one must conceive of the double conditioning of a strategy by the specificity of possible tactics, and of tatctics by the strategic envelope that makes them work.")
 * Rule of the tactical polyvalence of discourses (reciprocity, etc. related to "the cycle of prohibition" and "the logic of censorship")

__**List of vocab**__ 1 : unduly prolonged or drawn out : too long 2 : marked by or using an excess of words synonyms see [|wordy] Pasted from 
 * Prolix**

1 : [|indwelling], [|inherent]  2 : being within the limits of possible experience or knowledge — compare [|transcendent] — im·ma·nent·ly adverb Pasted from 
 * p.40 immanent??**

(4S Conference, multiplicity)** 1 a: the quality or state of being [|multiple] or various b: the number of components in a system (as a [|multiplet] or a group of energy levels)2: a great number3: the number of times a root of an equation or zero of a function occurs when there is more than one root or zero  Pasted from 
 * Analytical multiplication P47 or 48??

1 a: to suppress or alter (as a vowel or syllable) by elision b: to strike out (as a written word)2 a: to leave out of consideration : [|omit] b: [|curtail], [|abridge] Pasted from 
 * P64 elided**