Lire, relire et citer Michel Foucault. Concepts. This page offers brief definitions of some of the key concepts in Foucault's work.
For a more complete list which also includes extensive details of where these concepts can be found in Foucault's work please see my book Michel Foucault (London: Sage, 2005). The list here places more emphasis on definitions, whereas the list in the book provides a detailed structure of references for users of Foucault's work. Michel Foucault on S&M. Portrait of the philosopher as a young man: "...Michel Foucault, in an interview for Advocate, had this to say about SM: The idea that S&M is related to a deep violence, that S&M practice is a way of liberating this violence, this aggression, is stupid.
We know very well that what all those people are doing is not aggressive; they are inventing new possibilities of pleasure with strange parts of their body - through the eroticisation of the body. I think it's a kind of creation, a creative enterprise, which has as one of its main features what I call the desexualisation of pleasure ... The possibility of using our bodies as a possible source of very numerous pleasures is something that is important.