Foucault's History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Explained

This is a brief introduction to one of the major arguments at the beginning of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1. The argument concerns what Foucault calls the "repressive hypothesis."
The video illustrates major parts of Foucault's argument by staging an imagined dialogue between Foucault and Sigmund Freud, whose theories of sexuality revolve around the notion of repression.
Important concepts in Foucault's work are highlighted here, including the distinction between repressive and normalizing power, and the notion of sexuality as a "discourse."