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Foucault and Addiction

Foucault's emphasis on sexuality can be partly attributed to geography. Though prominent throughout the West in the 19th century, concern with sex was felt more keenly in France than in other major industrialized nations. Unlike Britain and America, which were protected by water, France was a continental power confronted by an emerging German state said to be reproducing far more quickly: after the Franco-Prussian war, it was even feared that Germany would soon be able to put two soldiers on the field for each Frenchman.¹ While issues such as criminality and drunkenness received their due,² France's approach to the psy-sciences,...