Eroticization of Prohibition
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.69
**A Misguided Notion of Power Relations**
Theoretical move: Fink defends Lacanian psychoanalysis against Foucault's critique that it is anachronistically wedded to a juridical model of power by arguing that (1) the juridical and normalization models coexist rather than the latter having replaced the former, and (2) prohibition does not suppress libido but eroticizes it, producing new objects and identifications—thus the eroticizing effect of the law is no less operative than Foucauldian normalization.
prohibition, far from damming up the flow of libido, redoubles its intensity and leads to the creation of new libidinal dynamics and new erotic objects