...Repeatedly, Foucault explores the cultural dynamics that have persuaded the modern epoch to believe that sex ‘has become more important than our soul, more important almost than our life' (Foucault 1978: 156). So powerful is this idea, he states, that one is led to think that we should...

...knowledge, liberation, and pleasure. In this sense, sex replaces the function of the soul "over the centuries it has become more important than our soul, more important almost than our life" (HS, 156). Similar to the speculative function of sex, the soul imprinted on delinquency privatizes...

...Repeatedly, Foucault explores the cultural dynamics that have persuaded the modern epoch to believe that sex 'has become more important than our soul, more important almost than our life' (Foucault 1978: 156). [...] Acutely conscious of how powerful concepts such as sexuality come to dominate...

...Repeatedly, Foucault explores the cultural dynamics that have persuaded the modern epoch to believe that sex ‘has become more important than our soul, more important almost than our life' (Foucault 1978: 156). 1. . Acutely conscious of how powerful concepts such as sexuality come to dominate...

...with which we surround it, the care we take to know it. Hence the fact that over the centuries [sex] has become more important than our soul, more important almost than our life. 3 Psychologizing sex has centered and privileged it, making sexuality utterly crucial to our lives...

...that we are willing to die for: Hence the fact that over the cen turies it has become more importan t than our soul, more important almost than our life;...density that makes it more serious than any other. The Faustian pact, whose temptation has been instilled in us by the deployment of sexuality, is now...

...reverential fear with which we surround it, the care we take to know it. Hence the fact that over the centuries it has become more important than our soul,...density that makes it more serious than any other. The Faustian pact, whose temptation has been instilled in us by the deployment of sexuality, is now...

...reverential fear with which we surround it. the care we take to know it. Hence. the fact that over the centuries it has become more important than our soul,...enigmas appear frivolous to us compared to this secret, mmiscule in each of us. but of a density that makes it more serious than any other. The Faustian pact....

...sexual expectations had indeed escalated. According to Foucaulr, modern culture teaches us that sex “has become more important than our soul, more important almost than our life.” 2 ' Written in irony, Foucaulr's point mocks the modern media, which saturate us with sexual images....