The pleasure of the discourse on pleasure
 

Foucault 71: "It is often said that we have been incapable of imagining any new pleasures. We have at least invented a different kind of pleasure: pleasure in the truth of pleasure, the pleasure of knowing that truth, of discovering and exposing it, the fascination of seeing it and telling it, of captivating and capturing others by it, of confiding it in secret, of luring it out in the open--the specific pleasure of the true discourse on pleasure."

> from Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (1976, translated 1977)

> tagged with #knowledge, #language, #pleasure

> created October 7, 2025 at 8:20:54 AM


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