| Abstrakt: |
In this article, the author explores the foundations of the radical thought of Michael Foucault and his followers. The author begins with a summary of the Foucaultian position: Domination is not at all related to the repression of some preexisting sexual instinct or drive, whether that is conceived as a biological force or a trans-historical psychoanalytic category. He argues that Foucaultian radicalism can be saved only if it strives for an accommodation with something like the Marcusian position. He also believes that domination is not that which represses the sexual subject; therefore, the struggle against domination does not require any practice of discovering, becoming aware of, and releasing from external constraint, any innermost sexual self. |
