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28 January 1981

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Subjectivity and Truth

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The ethical perception of the aphrodisia. ~ Principle of social-sexual isomorphism and principle of activity. ~ Valorization of marriage and definition of adultery. ~ Modern experience of sexuality: localization of sexuality and division of the sexes. ~ Penetration as natural and non-relational activity. ~ The discrediting of passive pleasure. ~ Paradox of the effeminate womanizer. ~ Problematization of the relationship with boys. ~ The desexualized pedagogical erotics.

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  1. K. J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978).

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  2. W. Stekel, Onanie und Homosexualität: die homosexuelle Parapathie (Berlin and Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1923 [1917]); French translation Paul-Émile Morhardt, Onanisme et Homosexualité. La parapathie homosexuelle (Paris: Gallimard, coll. “Psychologie,” 1951) ch.: “L’homosexualité latente, les masques de l’homosexualité, l’âge critique, Don Juan et Casanova.”

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Frédéric Gros François Ewald Alessandro Fontana

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Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (2017). 28 January 1981. In: Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (eds) Subjectivity and Truth. Michel Foucault. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73900-4_4

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