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Newsletter Nr. 1.218
Amsterdam, July 28, 2024

THE PRISON-HOUSE OF THE SOUL, The Will of Spirit, and Foucauldian Ethics of the Self - JOE CORBETT

In Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish he speaks of the soul as being the prison of the body, by which he means that the practices of modern subjectification, the means by which we become selves through various disciplinary mechanisms and procedures, has a central role in constraining, controlling, and shaping the body and its behaviors. 

Hence, for Foucault the soul is none other than the ensemble of practices and techniques that form our deepest sense of who we are, the unconscious habits of the socio-cultural and historical milieu in which we have our being in the world. 

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