The psychic life of power  -  Judith Butler

theories in subjection

KORTE INHOUD

As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the trajectory of its desire. Power is not simply what we depend on for our existence but that which forms reflexivity ...
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1997 Uitgever: Stanford University Press 218 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0804728127 ISBN-13: 9780804728126