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The soul is the prison of the body.

The soul is the prison of the body.

Michel Foucault
Soul, Body, Prison
Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.13, Routledge

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

Michel Foucault
Political, Soul, Body
Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.27, Vintage

Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species.

Michel Foucault
Practice, Soul, Aberration
The History of Sexuality vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 2 (1976) (translation by Robert Hurley)

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