A relação entre práticas de confissão e produção de subjetividade em Michel Foucault

Abstract

In Foucault\'s work The History of Sexuality I - The Will to Knowledge, he argues that the western man has become a confessor animal. Such argument will be used as a motto to this research, which aims to develop a discussion about the relation between confession practices and subjectivity production. In order to understand how confession is linked not only to knowledge but also to power strategies, promoting thus the formation of subjectivity. Therefore we will consider the presence of a confession ideology in Foucault s work, what will allow us to point the confession technology as a set of knowledge and practices related to subjectivity, put in a reciprocal incitation relationship, where the verbalization act, the self discourse use, create an understanding on the subject. It is a fundamental christianity moral element, which has for long been amply spread among western society though, from Christian confessionary to several contexts such as: in justice, in pedagogy, in family, in affective relationships and in medical offices. It has become thus, one of the most highly valued techniques of truth production on the subjects.