Does the analysis of sexuality necessarily imply the elision o f the body, anatomy, the biological, the functional?
Negative…the purpose of the present study is in fact to show how deployment of power are directly connected to the body-to bodies, functions, physicolgoical processes, sensations, and pleasure: far from the body having to be effaced, what is needed is to make it visible through an anlysis in which the biological and the historical are not consequitve to one another, as in the evolutions of the first sociologists, but are bound together in an increasingly complex fashion in accordance with the development of the modern technologies of power that take life as their objective.151-2 • I do not envisage a history of mentalities….but a ‘history of bodies’ and the manner in which what is most material and most vital in them has been invested. 152 • “all along the great lines which the development of the deployment of sexuality has followed since the nineteenth cnetjry, one sees the elaboration of this idea that there exists something other than boides, organs, somatic localizations, functions
