The Law Is Limiting Our Inherent Vitality

Foucot is tapping into this sense that the law is oppressive, and liberation means going beyond the res of the law. Once you buy into that restriction, then you've already succumbed. To believe yourself a desiring being, he thinks, is to succumb to the logic of the Law. And so pleasure and subjectivity, that's more on the side of psychoanalysis and continental philosophy. Yet ape r an bodies are much more in line with historicism than desire or subjectivity.