The concept of repression is a juridico-disciplinary notion, tainted from the outset

Evidence

I think that the notion of “repression” is still, whatever critical use we try to make of it, a juridico-disciplinary notion; and to that extent the critical use of the notion of “repression” is tainted, spoiled, and rotten from the outset because it implies both a juridical reference to sovereignty and a disciplinary reference to normalization. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 58

Categorization

• DEFINE: Foucault’s famous refusal of ‘repression’ as an analytic category: it smuggles in sovereign-rights and normalization assumptions, whatever critical use is attempted.
• XREF: Directly anticipates the core argument of The History of Sexuality vol. 1 — power is productive, not repressive — and matters for later readings that must avoid the repression hypothesis when analyzing exclusion. — connects to: Repression and war are twin hypotheses about power’s mechanisms — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 36; At critical saturation, repression collapses the very concept of energy it produces — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 486

Related

• Repression and war are twin hypotheses about power’s mechanisms (similarity 0.83)
• At critical saturation, repression collapses the very concept of energy it produces (similarity 0.82)
• Treating power as repression is a clichéd inheritance from Hegel and Freud. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Repression and war are twin hypotheses about power’s mechanisms #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 36