For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

The Care of the Self: Volume 3 of the history of sexuality

by Foucault, Michel (1986)

Key Passage

It is this principle that makes it good to dream of sexual intercourse with slaves: one profits from one's possessions; that which one has purchased for the benefit of labor yields the benefit of pleasurebesides. (p.32)

Keywords

Foucault, Foucauldian, Pleasure, Dreaming, Pleasure, Marriage, Home, House, Family

Themes

History of Sexuality, Foucault Citations

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