The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure

erotic-as-power

• sexual relations always conceived in terms of penetration, assuming a polarity that opposed activity and passivity, and the same valuation applied to social relations

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• what differentiates men is not the type of objects toward which they are oriented but the intensity of that practice: moderation or excess

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self-and-identity

• the mode of subjection was not defined by a universal legislation but by a dynamic of forces always liable to excess and rebellion

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• there are different ways to conduct oneself morally, different ways for the acting individual to form himself as an ethical subject

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education-and-formation

• askēsis was not a corpus of separate practices distinct from virtue itself; it was the rehearsal that anticipated that practice

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• respect for the beloved, for his real nature, ought to give its sober style to whatever one might ask of him

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