Michel Foucaults History of Sexuality II

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Michel Foucaults History of Sexuality II

• Sex before Sexuality?

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Agenda

• Procedures (cont.)
• Due Dates, Oral Reports, Papers
• Recap and Update
• Gender ? Antigone ? Butler ? Sexuality (Foucault)
• Michel Foucault
• Aspects of his Thought
• HS 2 The Use of Pleasure
• Sexual Ethics, Pederastic Protocols

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Procedures (cont.)

• Due Dates, Oral Reports, Papers

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Procedures (cont.)

• Due Dates
• Oral Reports
• 17-Feb Symposium
• Individual Progress Log
• Papers
• topic

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Recap and Update

• Gender ? Antigone ? Butler ? Sexuality (Foucault)

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Antigone on Butler, on Sexuality/Gender
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Questions

• Does play validate sexuality/gender as
• essence?
• social construction?
• Does play validate view of family as
• socially embedded symbol?
• moral absolute?

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Answers

• b using ant to validate ideas
• as metaphor
• not reading with soph
• b misreading h/l as misreading play
• b on h/l illuminates mutiple interpretations
• hence good play
• critical thinking

• b sees manly manly ant, but not necessarily
  correctly

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Gender as analytic concept

• social / cultural
• expectations
• associations
• relative to, yet abstracted from, biological sex

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Foucault on Sexuality?

• in relation to anc greece not such a defined
  thing
• not sexualities
• not same moral dilemma as in christian times
• rather, excess v moderation
• very different attitudes to sexual ethics
• diff ethical consideration relating homoertic
  relationships
• pleasure principal physical contact pleasures
  problematize intensity and frequency
• their sexuality the more open-ended concept
• aphrodisia
• not homo-/hetero- sexual, still passive/active

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Michel Foucault

• Aspects of his Thought

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Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

• Knowledge
• Power
• Discursive formations

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History of Sexuality (1976-1984)

• An Introduction
• Repressive Hypothesis
• Perverse Implantation
• The Use of Pleasure
• Genealogy
• The Care of the Self
• Late-antique mistrust of pleasures

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HS 2 The Use of Pleasure

• Sexual Ethics, Pederastic Protocols

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HS2 Sexual Ethics
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(Sexual Ethics 1) Dynamics
aphrodisia
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(Sexual Ethics 2) Variables

• Degree / frequency
• moderation
• excess

• Polarity
• active
• passive

For a man, excess and passivity were the two
main forms of immorality in the practice of the
aphrodisia.
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(Sexual Ethics 3) Evaluative Criteria

• Need
• Occasion
• Status

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Sexual-Social Isomorphism
aka asymmetry hypothesis
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Pederasty Basics

• Relationship
• erastes
• eromenos
• reciprocity, asymmetry
• (Quasi-)institutionalization
• Competition

Dover, K. J. Greek Homosexuality. 2 ed.
Cambridge, Mass., 1989.
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First encounter(Attic RF)
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Demure rejection (?), Paestum, Italy
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Intercrural intercourse(archaic Attic BF vase)
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Is Foucaults Greece a Foreign Place?