Therapy, Care, and the Hermeneutics of the Self: A Foucauldian Approach

Faustino, Marta

doi:10.1080/21692327.2020.1749716

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“…Within some anti-racist texts, these dead ends of guilt are noticed (Dabiri, 2021), yet the demand for self-critical confession persists. Perhaps these guides occasionally spur connections to actual activism, or contributions to anti-racist organisations, but equally they divert attention and energy towards self-transformation rather than collective action; somewhat paralleling self-help books (Faustino, 2020).…”

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“…The monastic and latterly sacramental practice of admitting thoughts and actions to a confessor is termed exagoreusis, putting the self into discourse through an account made to an auditor (Foucault, 2014). Whether confession is public or private, critical or therapeutic, it aims at the transformation of the subject through self-purification (Faustino, 2020).…”

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Confessional critiques: Parrhesia and avowal in contemporary anti-racist discourses

Boland,

Moore-Ponce

2023

European Journal of Social Theory

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Confessional critiques proliferate in contemporary culture, remodelling critical politics as self-purification. Within Foucault’s work, critique is associated with resistance to power and subjectification, whereas confession appears a technique of disciplinary and pastoral power. However, genealogy creates hybrids, and herein we observe how critique and confession are entangled in contemporary social justice discourses, focusing empirically on contemporary anti-racist texts. These critique their imagined readers and society more generally, demanding confessions, castigating denials and exhorting interminable purificatory self-work. This analysis draws from Foucault’s genealogies of parrhesia and avowal, through his latter works on the problem of ‘truth-telling’ and how it forms subjects, even by critique. Recognising this historical hybridisation of critique and confession within discourses such as anti-racism may help to clarify the political stakes of critique.

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Section: Theorising Truth-tellingmentioning

confidence: 99%