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Document: Michel Foucault – Fritz Morgenthaler: Homosexuality and Freedom, from the Perspectives of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (with new Postscript)

Document: Michel Foucault – Fritz Morgenthaler: Homosexuality and Freedom, from the Perspectives... Document MICHEL FOUCAULT – FRITZ MORGENTHALER: HOMOSEXUALITY AND FREEDOM, FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Martin Heinze, Berlin, Germany To get a handle on the problems we are dealing with here, we need a philosophy of history and of the mind. But it would be too strict of us to demand fully developed principles when speaking philosophically about politics. By studying events we learn to recognize what we find unacceptable, and this interpreted experience then becomes thesis and philosophy. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Les Aventures de la dialectique, 1955 My remarks will concern the views on sexuality of two very different authors, Fritz Morgenthaler and Michel Foucault. To begin, let us consider the ways in which the works of the two are similar. In their writings, both treated the issue of sexuality as central. To both, how one problematizes – understands or frames – one’s own sexuality is the defining 1. Originally delivered in the lecture series ‘Homosexuality and Science’ before the ‘Schwulenreferat’ at the Free University of Berlin, 4 July 1991, and published in JOURNAL (Psychoanalytisches Seminar Zürich), no. 25 (December 1991), pp. 51–64. Translated from the German by Nicholas Levis, PhD Program in History, The Graduate Center, City http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychoanalysis and History Edinburgh University Press

Document: Michel Foucault – Fritz Morgenthaler: Homosexuality and Freedom, from the Perspectives of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (with new Postscript)

Psychoanalysis and History , Volume 22 (1): 23 – Apr 1, 2020

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Edinburgh University Press
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1460-8235
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1755-201X
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10.3366/pah.2020.0328
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Document MICHEL FOUCAULT – FRITZ MORGENTHALER: HOMOSEXUALITY AND FREEDOM, FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Martin Heinze, Berlin, Germany To get a handle on the problems we are dealing with here, we need a philosophy of history and of the mind. But it would be too strict of us to demand fully developed principles when speaking philosophically about politics. By studying events we learn to recognize what we find unacceptable, and this interpreted experience then becomes thesis and philosophy. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Les Aventures de la dialectique, 1955 My remarks will concern the views on sexuality of two very different authors, Fritz Morgenthaler and Michel Foucault. To begin, let us consider the ways in which the works of the two are similar. In their writings, both treated the issue of sexuality as central. To both, how one problematizes – understands or frames – one’s own sexuality is the defining 1. Originally delivered in the lecture series ‘Homosexuality and Science’ before the ‘Schwulenreferat’ at the Free University of Berlin, 4 July 1991, and published in JOURNAL (Psychoanalytisches Seminar Zürich), no. 25 (December 1991), pp. 51–64. Translated from the German by Nicholas Levis, PhD Program in History, The Graduate Center, City

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