Public and private violence: "Une mise en discours de la violence" in Aline Chamberland's La Fissure.

The Discourse of Violence

In the first volume of his Histoire de la sexualite, Michel Foucault develops his concept of "une mise en discours du sexe" (29), created since the seventeenth century. He speaks of the condemnation and denial of sexuality that cause people to seek it out and discuss/confess it in every detail, while those same negative elements and restrictions play into the making of that very discourse (16, 21). In a similar vein, we rightfully abhor violence, and yet we are fascinated by its every detail, as reported and shown in courtroom trials and in the ...

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