Friendship according to Foucault: creative resistance with regard to biopower

Authors

  • Hélio Rebello Cardoso Jr. Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
  • Thiago Canonenco Naldinho

Keywords:

Foucault, friendship, life, existence, subjectivation

Abstract

This paper analyzes Foucault's concept of friendship both as relationship and way of living resistant to normalization promoted by biopower. We start by the description of the features which establish State as political form in its inner relations to biopower. Afterwards, we approach the historical profile of subjectivation processes and observe that the active or passive attitude with regard to them might accordingly determine the submission or autonomy of our subjectivity. In order to close, we discuss the importance of Philosophy to the establishment of friendship, with special regard to possibility of thinking with respect to a theory of relations.

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Published

2009-06-22

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2009)

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Friendship according to Foucault: creative resistance with regard to biopower. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, v. 21, n. 1, p. 43–56, 2009. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.uff.br/fractal/article/view/4726. Acesso em: 13 dec. 2025.