three years before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault expressed as follows Defert about his relationship with his friend Daniel: "I live in a state of passion with someone. Perhaps this passion has turned into love at some point. In reality it is a state of passion for us both, a permanent state of no other reason, terminate as himself and I fell completely, passing through me. I think that there is nothing in the world, nothing, whatever it be, that would prevent me, if it were a question of seeing him again to talk to him. "
This choice of words, for Foucault in the last years of his life significant: He mentions the great idea of love, distant from it softly with the word "perhaps", evokes in his descriptions, however, an intensity and intimacy that leaves no questions about his feelings for Daniel Defert open. His biographer, Didier Eribon summarized quite simply: "Foucault has loved him until the end."
Foucault's thinking about the friendship has been shaped by the fact that he was homosexual. For Foucault, this meant above all that the design of the relationship was not pre-programmed by society, a homosexual relationship was in a dark and gloomy area in which had a hand secrets are kept - we speak of the early sixties - and also a homosexual relationship form not yet been determined. Gays and lesbians "from A to Z must invent a relationship that is still informally: the friendship".
Foucault developed a perspective on relationships that basically a hopeful prognosis means in his eyes should relations between people, between people, more and more be determined by the need to capture internal and external freedoms and maintain. Foucault generalizes the specific position of the homosexual relationship, for all intimate relationships who want to make on the basis of a personal closeness is, that they are socially in a special situation.
Francisco Ortega holds this view as follows: "According to Foucault, we live in a world which have contributed to social institutions to limit the number of possible relationships. The reason this restriction is that a society that the increase would permit the possible forms of relationships to manage, and difficult to control would be ".
Accessing the friendship means to create minorities, which make the power of resistance. " Inspiration from this enlargement of the idea of friendship is that they bridge the gap between private and public strikes. It gives a positive dignity of friendship, not only for operators but also the social life and society.
This bridge is worn for my understanding of three pillars: 1 The self-knowledge and "self-forming Practice ", that is, the sovereign and creative relationship from me to me; 2 the connection from me to you, with the associated joint responsibility for the design of the sovereign relationship; 3 the importance of one and the other friendship to the lives of many more people for the people to the friendship pairs around, eventually for public life with all its institutions.
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