A liberdade de Foucault no interior de suas fronteiras

Abstract

In the genealogy of the subject, Foucault analyses the constitution of modern subjectivity and how the practices of the self operate in Greco-Roman antiquity, in the field of ethics. In the relationship between power and freedom, Foucault analyses how the subjected subject to power exercises its freedom. The aim of the research is to analyse how the subjected subject is able to carry out practices of freedom. In the first moment, the notion of power and its consequences in disciplinary power and biopower were analysed in order to understand how the device of sexuality was appropriated by Christian pastoral power in the constitution of the modern subject and how Foucault founded the relationship between power and freedom. The second moment analysed the power of freedom in the classical Greco-Roman period in order to understand how ancient subjectivity was constituted by modes of subjectivation. In the third moment, the unfolding of power in governmentality in modernity was analysed in order to understand how practices of freedom are linked to power. Finally, it was reflected that the practices of freedom are based on power and that there remains a field of possibility within the margins that fall to the subjected subject.