Subjectivity, scientifics and mediatics discourses: revisiting Foucault studies about bodies

Authors

  • Luísa Escher Furtado Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Shirley Dias Gonçalves Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Luciana Lobo Miranda UFC
  • Jesus Garcia Pascual Universidade Federal do Ceará

Keywords:

discourse, subject, body

Abstract

This theoretical study aims to discuss the production of self-care in scientific and mediatic discourses, based on the thougth of Michel Foucault about subject, speech and body. Science and media issues in the relationship are knowledge-power, operating through discourses in producing regimes of truth. The scientific discourses do not translate the truth about the nature of things, nor are just reproducers of the class struggles and/or the psychical conflicts. They are materiality producers of ways of living, bodies and subjects. Also the mediatic discourses are not only valued for mediating information between producers and spectators. The media produces and circulates discourses urging the subject to confess, to produce knowledge of himself. Finally, science and media are strategies of knowledge-power that together act on bodies and involve ways of self-behaviour.

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Author Biographies

Luísa Escher Furtado, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Mestranda em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Shirley Dias Gonçalves, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Mestranda em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará e Bolsista da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – CAPES

Luciana Lobo Miranda, UFC

Dra em psicologia Clínica pela Pontíficia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio. Professora do programa de Mestrado em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Ceará, linha de pesquisa Cultura e Subjetividade contemporânea.

Jesus Garcia Pascual, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Dr. em Educação pela UFC e Professor do Programa de Mestrado em Psicologia da UFC

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Published

2011-04-30

How to Cite

FURTADO, L. E.; GONÇALVES, S. D.; MIRANDA, L. L.; PASCUAL, J. G. Subjectivity, scientifics and mediatics discourses: revisiting Foucault studies about bodies. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 23, n. 1, p. 155-170, 30 Apr. 2011.

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2011)

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Other Topics

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