"Method" [in] The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault: Critical Ananlysis

The “Method” chapter of Foucault's history of sexuality, characterizes his views of power. Foucault reprimands the constraints of the "juridico-discursive" origination of power, which considers power to be something at last practiced to command, subdue, or to leave a subject submissive. Foucault considers power to be comprehensive: everything and everyone is a foundation of Power. Power exists in each connection, and domination, stillness, or subservience don't mean an absence of power to such an extent as an alternate appearance of power. Foucault progresses five suggestions with respect to power.

To begin with, power isn't something that you can or can’t have, rather it’s continually being practiced from all focuses in any connection. Secondly, power isn't just connected remotely to sex, economics and knowledge. Or maybe, it is inside these connections and decides their interior structure. Thirdly, power does not just descend from above, and not all power connections are shaped by a ruler/ruled model. Relatively, power connections fly up at all levels of society autonomous of the decision powers. Fourthly, however it is conceivable to recognize outlines and systems in power connections, there are no individual subjects practicing this power. There is a sanity and rationale behind power connections, however there are no mystery schemes or driving forces coordinating these powers.

Finally, obstruction is a piece of a power relationship, and isn't outer to it. Moreover, opposition does not typically show itself in a strong, relentless frame. Or maybe, pockets of obstruction fly up in better places and move about as flow of power change. Foucault's investigation of power demonstrates that we can't talk about sexuality in terms of one independent power connection. Or maybe, we have to take a closer look at all the various power relations that are around our discussions on sex that leads to show itself in the way that it does. Foucault came up with four rules to follow that fill in as guidelines in his examination:

1. Rule of Immanence: we should see power and knowledge as constantly associated. There is no such thing as unbiased information. We should know that what we think about sex and the way that we come to find out about sex are both dictated by the power relations that inspire our will to think about sex.
2. Rules of Continual Variation: power doesn’t show itself in static relations. instead, Foucault recognizes frameworks of change. Where the idea of a power relationship may move after some time.
3. Rule of Double Conditioning: every single nearby focus of power are parts of bigger techniques, and every larger methodology depended on nearby focuses of power, yet one doesn't imitate the other.
4. Rule for the Tactical Polyvalence of Discourse: Discourse is the thing that joins information to power, and like power itself, discourse works in a wide range of various ways. There is anything but a straightforward predominant/commanded connection in discourse, and stillness does not generally infer restraint.

Foucault finishes up, by saying that power does not appear as law. But instead, it functions in numerous levels and in different ways.