Reading Foucault’s History of sexuality with Freud’s Mystic writing pad: on the the dual place of The will to knowledge and on the paradox of the substitutes.

Abstract:

We will approach the problem of temporality in the Foucault’s History of sexuality from the theory of the mnesic trace, proposed by Freud in the article Note on the mystic writing pad. Such reading will allow us to question the transmission of the history from the spectral dimension of the foucauldian writing.

Keywords:
Foucault; history of sexuality; Freud; mystic writing pad; mnesic trace