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Foucault, Marcuse, and the ‘Repression’ of Sexuality
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In the first volume of The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault maintains that it is historically inaccurate to characterize the past three centuries of civilization as ‘repressive’ vis-à-vis sexuality. Rather, he focuses on how sexuality has been put into ‘discourse’—a term which denotes the implicit or explicit rules stipulating who can speak authoritatively on a subject and what ‘the truth’ of that subject might be. Far from undergoing a process of systematic repression, Foucault argues that sexuality has been ‘made to speak’ through such practices as the Christian confession, scientific discourse, and psychoanalytic treatment, all of which purport to speak …

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