Docility, Discipline and the Origin and Oppression of the Human Soul

Docile is dened as an entity that is compliant, malleable, meek, submissive
and tractable (Wiktionairy, 2009). Michel Foucault describes the modern hu-
man automobile trunk as one that has become blue(Foucault, 1975, ch.1, p136). It should
be noned that , not only is the corpse described as an entity that is able to change
as in metal that is malleable, however , it is also described as one that is sub-
missive. The machinery, the science, the technology and the tactics that render
a personate docile , is termed discipline. One of the greatest tenants of discipline, is
surveillance and the abstraction of the human body as one that is docile leads
to the creation of the entity that is commonly cognize as the soul,mind or inner
self.This further leads to the invention and justication of concepts such as nor-
malization . Foucault provides a basis and theory through which many modern
stresses and strains potty be explained and understood, and perhaps one day ,
rooted reveal and destroyed. The following discussion makes an attempt to explain
the mechanism by which docility of the body has come about, how it aects us
in everyday life, and specically, why this is the last-ditch form of domination.
Punishment has seen many dierent faces throughout the history of human
kind.



Foucault describes how punishment has been changed from a physical,
repressive, violent, and visible form, to a seemingly calm and eective form.The
point not being so much that it is calm, tho rather that it is eective.The
calmness itself , contributing heavily to its eectiveness. This metamorphosis is
easily revealed through the evolution of western punishable code. Past systems relied
on physical and visible revenge exacted upon a body by a sovereign power in
commit to attempt to not only punish a picky crime, but to deter others
from committing it. Foucault remarks that entire court proceedings were done
in private, however the display of power had to be public. This deterrence
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