Foucault’s Body Picture

Foucault’s thought is wordy and complicated, the substance of which can becommendably grasped from the visual angle of body.In Foucault’s world, people isviewed as the continuous inborn product and that’s the power as well as theknowledge who constructs the body.This article majors in discoursing the bodyconception,which mainly involves Foucault’s body conception’s primaryorigin,central content and pratical analysis.Nietzsche’s thoughts has far-reaching influence on Foucault’s bodyconception,whose genealogy affords Foucault the method to study body;Besids,Nietzsche’s power and volition prove to be the internal strength which dominatesbody,on this basis, Foucault concluded that body suffered from various reistriction ofexternal force.Concerning the body’s practice, Nietzsche’s works highly advocatedpreterhuman’s will;Nonetheless, the shortage of pratical action in real life endowedNietzsche the title of body’s metaphysician.While Foucault practiced audaciouslyand acted personally,thus pursued his own ultimate experience through a series offreak-out.Foucault’s thoughts on body and power has pronged his works consistently.Byreference to his early primary works:《Madness and Civilization》、《Discipline andPunish》、《The History of Sexuality,Vol.1:An Introduction》, firstly dealt with thedefinition of mad body made by intellectual discourse and the diverse bodyexperience of lunatics during diffrent period of history;secondly,from the angle of thepower’s evolution,aproached the trasformation from materila penalty applied byvenerable monarchic power to rounded controls on body conducted by modernauthority;finally,revealed the dominance over body and adjustment to holistic lifeexerted by nature which was regarded as property of right.Foucault’s body conception had shown up strong realistic meaning. Taking thebody narration occured in Jiangwen’s films as an illustration, an entirely new vision tounscramble has been available for us with the help of practical analysis directed byFoucault’s body theory.Primarily, to discuss the earthbound body under Jiangwen’sconception of history by Foucault’s opinion on the relation history and body;next, tounscramble the image and significance of madman appeared in Jiangwen’s moviesthrough Foucault’s insane body theory;at last, to analyze the violence and sex existedin Jiangwen’s world of pictures via Foucault’s exposition on the relation amongbody,sex and power.In sum, this thesis attempts to further enrich our knowledge of Foucault’sthought recuring to in-depth and micromesh approach and practical analysis onFoucault’s body conception,meanwhile which will also afford us an entirely newvisual angle to grasp and understand current cinematics in China.