SEXUALITY, SAFETY AND DISCIPLINE: BODY AND DISCOURSE IN ODY FRAGA'S “REFORM OF THE DEPRAVED” (1978)

Abstract

Our aim, with this article, is to problematize the body in the midst of the power / knowledge relations that mark it historically, producing a specific type of visibility for the subject, for sex and sexuality. Thus, we start from the filmic materiality of Reform of the depraved, an erotic drama directed in 1978 by Ody Fraga, to verify, filmically and discursively, how the body is crossed by a disciplinary and control policy, within a specific moment of brazilian history, which mobilize and ventilate discourses about an ideal model of sexuality and life policies. This work is part of the studies of French Discourse Analysis, whose main contribution are the postulates of Michel Foucault