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Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and FilmThe Stubborn Drive: Foucault, Freud, Fanon

Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: The Stubborn Drive: Foucault, Freud, Fanon [The obsessive thematization of sexuality and sexual identity in the late 1980s and 1990s, in particular since the AIDS crisis, seems to bear out precisely what Foucault decried as the deployment of sexuality in late capitalism. This is a time, he wrote in 1976, ‘in which the exploitation of wage labor does not demand the same violent and physical constraints as in the nineteenth century, and where the politics of the body does not require the elision of sex or its restriction solely to the reproductive function; it relies instead on a multiple channelling into the controlled circuits of the economy’ (HS, 114). In other words, the continuing discursive production of ‘sexual heterogeneities’ (HS, 37), in Foucault’s words, or, as some say, of neo-sexualities, and the multiplication and proliferation of sexes and sexual identities since the 1990s reverse the picture of ‘a sexuality repressed for economic reasons’ (HS, 114) to that of a sexuality that is produced for economic reasons. These are, of course, no longer the reasons of bio-power and bourgeois class hegemony that Foucault attributed to the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but rather the economics of transnational capital and labour in the postcolonial world market (sex tourism from the US and Europe to Asia, sex workers imported and exported across the globe, international networks of paedophiles on the Internet, and so forth).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
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978-1-349-35720-8
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39 –57
DOI
10.1057/9780230583047_3
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Abstract

[The obsessive thematization of sexuality and sexual identity in the late 1980s and 1990s, in particular since the AIDS crisis, seems to bear out precisely what Foucault decried as the deployment of sexuality in late capitalism. This is a time, he wrote in 1976, ‘in which the exploitation of wage labor does not demand the same violent and physical constraints as in the nineteenth century, and where the politics of the body does not require the elision of sex or its restriction solely to the reproductive function; it relies instead on a multiple channelling into the controlled circuits of the economy’ (HS, 114). In other words, the continuing discursive production of ‘sexual heterogeneities’ (HS, 37), in Foucault’s words, or, as some say, of neo-sexualities, and the multiplication and proliferation of sexes and sexual identities since the 1990s reverse the picture of ‘a sexuality repressed for economic reasons’ (HS, 114) to that of a sexuality that is produced for economic reasons. These are, of course, no longer the reasons of bio-power and bourgeois class hegemony that Foucault attributed to the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but rather the economics of transnational capital and labour in the postcolonial world market (sex tourism from the US and Europe to Asia, sex workers imported and exported across the globe, international networks of paedophiles on the Internet, and so forth).]

Published: Sep 14, 2015

Keywords: Sexual Identity; Sexual Subject; Decisive Separation; Postcolonial Theory; Death Drive

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