Foucault

regulate authority and power, much like our world, and the way this plays out is identical to a contemporary understanding of power. French Philosopher Michel Foucault proposed three forms of power that allow for the creation, development, and maintenance of authority: perpetrator/victim power, disciplinary power, and population management power (Foucault 136). I am going to examine these classifications of power and their use among the Ministry of Magic as well as the Death Eaters to prove that authority

challenged the concept of the autonomous, self-knowing subject. He contended his groundbreaking thought "an entity governed by the unconscious, the force of which are held in check by consciousness" (p-100). On the other hand French philosopher, Michel Foucault claimed that "the subject as an entity produced within and through the discourses and

character with divided personality, namely Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, whose portrait protected him from the eyes of the public. Both Jasper and Dorian are not showing any signs of physical monstrosity, they are, what Foucault defines ‘moral monsters and monstrous criminals’ (Foucault, 75) When Basil painted his portrait, Dorian expressed the wish to remain young and have the portrait age in his place. Time passes; he leads a sinful life while the portrait bears the burden of his sins. He does not

Secondary Literature Review: Asylums At the beginning of the 18th century, the insane were treated as little more than feral animals who had lost all sense of reason. It’s because of the developments made over the next two hundred years, starting with the birth of the asylums and the process of Humanitarian reform that these backwards attitudes towards the mentally ill began to change. I’m going to be reviewing the literature surrounding the development of moral treatment and what opinions the

3. Progressively, high culture has been seen to be supplanted by popular culture is driven on by 'democratic conditions.' It is the certified articulation of an imaginative phenomenon which is exceptional whereby low culture is much of the time fabricated for a group of people of consumers. Low culture is sometimes seen as a 'judgment expression' to mean anything that is the inverse of high culture, and in the cutting edge, age alludes to anything that is created by culture industry to make a benefit

Panoptical Power in China Jeremy Bentham, a leading English prison reformer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, developed an architectural plan for an ideal prison that he called the Panopticon. Such a prison would consist of a ring of individual cells encircling an observation tower. Each of the cells would open toward the tower and be illuminated by its own outside window. So, by the effect of backlighting, a single guard in the observation tower could keep watch on many prisoners--each

Diego Velazquez creates three center points in Las Meninas–the palace official, the young princess, and the King and Queen–in order to emphasize the contrast between the real, ideal, and reflected worlds. The palace official in the doorway is the actual vanishing point of Las Meninas, which creates a life-like feel to the painting. Velazquez blurs the line between art and reality by painting Las Meninas on a 10.5 by 9-foot canvas and creates a three-dimensional area that the viewer can “walk into”

that particular day the offense took place, Adam could not attend school. Niveen felt guilty of missing several days of work because she was taking care of Adam, thus she started to have anxiety that she could possibly lose her job. Considering Foucault it can be concluded that, Niveen’s mental state was functioning irrationally at the time she “abandoned”

definitive symptom of psychosis. As schizophrenic sound is sourceless and the patient is not able to pinpoint where the source emanate from, within or without. For Foucault schizophrenic voices function in an impossible space, signifying the way in which the subject’s spatiotemporal world is restructured in deep mental illness (Erb 55). Foucault observed “[Schizophrenics] hear voices in mythical space . . . in which, axes of reference are fluid and mobile: they hear next to them, around them, within them

The Matthew Shepard Event The human body is an object in which one lives and the medium through which one experiences oneself and the world. The human body vests claims on ideology and space; and thus participates as the site on which conflicts about belief systems and territory contest violently. Gay bodies become entangled in violence when they enter into arenas that combat certain ideas. Gay bashing illustrates incidences all in which bodies experience physical injury. In modern U.S. communities