History of Sexuality

[synapticjava]

You know, once you actually get into it, it's not so bad afterall. It's a little slow-going, but this idea that "repression" is actually a catalyst for the opposite is fascinating to me. I only have one more part - about 60 pages left. I've been taking periodic breaks to absorb the material. I feel all scholarly, though, trudging through this thing. It does use one of my pet peeves though. In academic or "intelligent" institutions, people for whatever feel the need for using extremely "intelligent" words to describe an idea, and usually a whole host of such words. What bothers me is when they do this, even though the idea can be summed up using a)laymen's vocabulary, or b)using a relatively small amount of words. I hate that people have to "show off" to make themselves feel smart.

Which is almost ironic, because in four seperate passages now, Foucault has attacked society for being so "verbose" when it comes to sexuality. Funny.

Needless to say, I'm getting much use out of my dictionary.

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[trepkos.livejournal.com]

In academic or "intelligent" institutions, people for whatever feel the need for using extremely "intelligent" words to describe an idea, and usually a whole host of such words. What bothers me is when they do this, even though the idea can be summed up using a)laymen's vocabulary, or b)using a relatively small amount of words.

Seconded, thirded etc.
That really pisses me off too.