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Michel Foucault

“But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.”

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
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