Foucaults Work on Sexuality
My objective … has been to create a history of the different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects. … Thus it is not power, but the subject, which is the general theme of my research. (Foucault 1982) Discuss with reference to ONE of the following: 1. Foucaults work on madness 2. Foucaults work on punishment 3. Foucaults work on sexuality (Source: Foucault, M. (1982) Afterword: The Subject and Power, in H.L. Dreyfus & P. Rabinow (eds) Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 208-9.)