Foucault Abnormal Behavior

ng the characteristic feature of a monster and reflects on multiple dimensions of abnormal behavior. As Foucault says, he is suggesting a philosophical theory which is essential in the question of pleasure, and shows a marked concern for body and sexual pleasures. To an extent, Foucault is suggesting that mentally deranged people exhibit certain behaviors which are regarded monstrous such as 'Masturbation.' So the in and out of body experience comes down to insanity or is it a reaction to the situation the individual is in, which is a distorted view in our society.

While Foucault traces concepts such as madness, punishment and sexuality across different historical eras his thinking proposes overlapping and contesting histories. Foucault uses the example of Hermaphrodites to show monstrosity by stating "Hermaphrodites were considered to be monsters and were executed." (Michael Foucault, Abnormal, p. 67). Hermaphrodites linked to Homosexuality could cause a sexual addiction which is a pretext of abnormal sexual desires typically depicted through Paraphilia. So the society would discard them just because they were flawed or unacceptable? Degeneration is the major theoretical element of medicalization of the 'Abnormal.'

In his writing, Foucault describes the 'condition' as the abnormal basic upon which illnesses become possible. A condition can produce absolutely anything at any order anything that is pathological in the body or deviant behavior may be a product of a 'condition.' The 'condition' is the abnormal basis upon which illnesses become possible. It is suggested that degeneration is the major theoretical element of medicalization of the abnormal. The degenerate is someone who is a danger. The degenerate is someone who, at a...

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...ions at will. The reality of sexual deviants form of behavior to a way of being: irregular sexual acts were not just viewed as immoral, but as the manifestation of an underlying morbid condition.

Foucault argues that the modern idea of sexuality was historically constituted when medical science delimited deviance. Although Foucault addresses that sexuality was shaped rather than repressed by the scientific will to know, the purpose was relegating sexual repression.

Michael Foucault played a key role in the construction of the modern concept of sexuality through interlocked approaches. The purpose of this writing is to promote an understanding of mental defectiveness that can lead to criminal behavior. In the wake of Foucault's influential sexual histories, Krafft-Ebing is often maligned as a contributor to the repressed Victorian construction of sexual deviancy.