O dispositivo da sexualidade e seu redimensionamento à luz da biopolítica: uma reflexão foucaultiana

Abstract

The present dissertation proposes to understand how Michel Foucault (1926-1984), in his studies of the different mechanisms of power that compose and sustain modern society, discover the dispositive of sexuality and its operational resizing, when it is transmuted while biopolitical's control technology. He tries to demonstrate in this itinerary the hypothesis that even today this control technology is evident, turning continually to its own development - through a statal administration procedure of desires in the sphere of the society discursive fields. The sexuality's dispositive is exposed by Michel Foucault in the book History of Sexuality 1: the will to knowledge (1976), in which the author fundamentally investigates the conditions of possibility of the discourses production about sex. In the same time, becomes evident in the work the unstoppable quest about the argumentative constitution that sex, under the record of the history of its discursive production in the Classic age and / or during the Western Modern Age, has never been factually repressed. Indeed, in his own research on the work in question, the author tries to demonstrate that, for a history of sexuality, precisely during the periods at stake (Classical and Modern Ages), a hermeneutic "around and about sex" is suggested as "a true discursive outburst", and not as a constraint on their expressiveness. It will be treated like a discursive explosion to compose a precise historical and thematic framework in which it's possible consequently to observe and reflect philosophically on the emergence or rather on the irruption of the sexuality dispositive as a discursive axis institutionalized to be complemented by what announces its own expansion within biopolitics framework. Biopolitics that will be elucidated, along with the various devices of power, in the first two chapters of this dissertation. Text that will only have in his third moment the direct problematization of sexuality as subsumed dipositive in biopower. Some of the main works with which we work for are, besides the history of sexuality 1 - the will to knowledge: Discipline and Punish (1975), Abnormal (2010), Society must be defended (2002), Security, Territory, Population (2008), Birth of Biopolitics (2008).