...ritual of discourse in which the speaking subject is also the subject of the statement; it is also a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship,...to judge, punish, forgive, console, and reconcile; a ritual in which the truth is corroborated by the obstacles and resistances it has had to surmount...

...the confession ritual which, he says, is also a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship,for one does not confess without the presence (or virtual...to judge, punish, forgive, console, and reconcile; a ritual in which the truth is corroborated by the obstacles and resistances it has had to surmount...

..."confession is a ritual of discourse . . . that unfolds within a power relationship": A person confesses to a "partner who is not simply the interlocutor but...to judge, punish, forgive, console, and reconcile" (History of Sexuality 61-62). In "Sun-Down Poem," the confession involves a sense of evil and darkness...

...Logos," exchanged now for an immanence in which the author addresses his public as, in Foucault's words, "the authority who requires the Confession, prescribes...to judge, punish, forgive, console and reconcile."" Just as Hume and the Adam Smith of the Theory of Moral Sentiments had theorised civil society as a...

...ritual of discourse in which the speaking subject is also the subject of the statement; it is also a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship,...to judge, punish, forgive, console, and reconcile; a ritual in which the truth is corroborated by the obstacles and resistances it has had to surmount...

...ritual of discourse in which the speaking subject is also the subject of the statement; it is also a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship,...interlocutor but the authority who requires the confession." (Foucault, 1980a:61) The process by which the individual comes to construe himself as a certain sort...

...or 'Productive Logos', exchanged now for an immanence in which the author addresses his public as ' the authority who requires the confession, prescribes...intervenes in order to judge, punish, forgive, console and reconcile'.37 Just as Hume and the Adam Smith of the Theory of Moral Sentiments had theorized civil...

...therapist. Foucault states that the confession is a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship: One does not confess without the presence (or virtual...to judge, punish, forgive, console and reconcile; a ritual in which the truth is corroborated by the obstacles and resistances it has to surmount in...

...suspects whom we encounter as much as to our own vicariously participatory dynamic: [The confession] is a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship,...punish, forgive, console, and reconcile; . . . and finally, a ritual in which the expression alone, independently of its external consequences, produces...

...ritual of discourse in which the speaking subject is also the subject of the statement; it is also a ritual that unfolds within a power relationship,...to judge, punish, forgive, console, and reconcile. 28 It will be necessary to specify the phases of the discourse of sexuality in order to characterize...