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| Henri Lehmann, The Confessional (1872) |
Thanks for a superb class! Your responses to the blood bot's latest tweet have skillfully and thoughtfully underscored how Oprah's conversation with Meghan at once instantiates various forms of power and is imbued with myriad Christian, confessional and pastoral elements.
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| Oprah with Meghan (2021 television special) |
I hope my comments on Foucault's accounts of the "repressive hypothesis" and the "incitement to discourse" helped to orient you to the complexly intertwined motifs of power, discourse, confession, truth and the "will to knowledge" woven into The History of Sexuality, vol. 1.
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| Thomas Eakins, The Agnew Clinic (1889, oil on canvas) |
For this week's blogging assignment, I'd like you to identify and describe an example of a confession or a confessional episode from religion, history, myth, film, literature, art, music, popular culture, current affairs, science or your own life-experience. How does your example align and/or contrast with the Catholic ritual of confession and/or modern confessional sciences like psychoanalysis? What sorts of power relations might your example instantiate? Feel free to include a picture if you wish!
As always, if you prefer, you may articulate a question which arose for you in relation to this week's reading, lecture and/or tutorial.
I look forward to learning from your blogs!