FAMILY AND BIOPOLITICS: THE DESTRUCTION OF INTIMACY IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

• Main Authors: Paulo Roberto de Carvalho, Sonia Regina Vargas Mansano
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Maringá 2017-07-01
• Series: Psicologia em Estudo
• Subjects: Família; biopolítica; sexualidade.
• Online Access: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/PsicolEstud/article/view/34803

This article seeks to discuss the contemporary family institution from a historical approach which dates back to the period of consolidation of the bourgeois family model. We decided to analyze the family institution in perspective of power relations as proposed by Michel Foucault. Specifically, the author of biopolitics, a power which is directed to the specificities of the living body, was used. To this end, was selected the issue of sexuality as historically this element in the transformations of the family model: a closed family about you and where sexuality was repressed and veiled, it moved to the current family in which these same topics gain visibility and discussion in an expanded space. Then wonder if the effects of the family by opening a biopolitical intervention. Finally, it was possible to demonstrate that there is a systematic destruction of the biopolitical interventions initiated intimacy and led by those who resist, somehow, to power determinations.