Techniques of vision: photography practices and the governing of subjectivities
| dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Goldwyn | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Heir, Sean P. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Walsh, Andrea N. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-16T19:17:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-12-16T19:17:22Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2006 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-12-16T19:17:22Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Dept. of Sociology | en |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores how photography has been used in the governing of subjectivities and draws on the following three forms of governmentality identified by Michel Foucault: biopower, discipline and ethics. In photography's early history discourses on character and insanity privileged visual observation and the camera was used as a more precise extension of the clinician's eye. With the emergence of Freud's "talking cure" the use of still-photography in treatment and diagnosis was generally neglected until the 1970s when the medium was re-configured as an ideal technique for accessing the unconscious. Currently Phototherapy clients, with the aid of a therapist, use personal photos in order to identify and modify problematic aspects of self. I draw on Michel Foucault's second and third period work in order to investigate these shifting relationships of photography to subjectivity. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1990 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en |
| dc.subject | photography in psychotherapy | en |
| dc.subject | Michel Foucault | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Sociology | en |
| dc.title | Techniques of vision: photography practices and the governing of subjectivities | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |