The Perverse Implantation By Michel Foucault

Providing the general social background, during nineteenth century, that a dispersion of sexualities and multiplication of sexual practices were initiated through the way of medication and education, the author Michel Foucault writes his article “The Perverse Implantation” which explains the history of perversion from ancient time to nineteenth century and the reason why perversion started to change its definition toward the public and to spread within the society quickly. In general, it represents as both an “evolution” and an analysis of the encroachment of perversion. The author finally can give a conclusion that perversion, supported by both a type of power, which is the rule imposed by social expectations and economical interest, and pleasure, which is the joy from escaping the rule and being finally recognized by the public, is implanted into people’s mind in the nineteenth century through a …show more content…
Repeatedly emphasizing the background that “Nineteenth-century ‘bourgeois’ society was a society of blatant and fragmented perversion” and “Modern society is perverse”, the author concludes that “lines of indefinite penetration”, the seek for pleasure under power and “maximum sexual saturation” compose the reasons why implantation of perversion grows. Additionally, back to the first paragraph which states the influence by economy in defining the normal sexuality, the author also summarizes that economic interests like medicine, psychiatry, prostitution, and pornography also entail the spread of perversion (Foucault, 48). He makes a clear statement that “pleasure and power do not cancel or turn back against one another; they seek out, overlap, and reinforce one another. They are linked together by complex mechanisms and devices of excitation and incitement (Foucault, 48)” which means that both the power and pleasure help the implantation of