Michel Foucault: el modo relacional del poder, la confesión y el control como dispositivos de poder.

Abstract

The present monographic work begins with the question: How do power, religion and truth relate to the domination of individuals, both their bodies and their minds today? In order to examine whether one of the many methods that power uses in the West to manage knowledge as is the device of confession, continues according to the thought of Michel Foucault anchored to subjects in the 21st century, after so many processes of change. To fulfill this, two of Michel Foucault’s works were explored and qualitative research with documentary design was executed, meaning that the present monograph is fed by secondary bibliographic sources found in different subscribed and free databases. Thus, in a first part, Foucault’s thought about the mechanisms of power used by institutions in order to build subjects that conform to the norm is made known. A second part examines the existence of the Christian confession as a method of surveillance of individuals. Hence, in a third and last part the most important conclusions are given: i) Power circulates within all those networks through which institutions propose as a technique in order to build subjects; ii) The implantation of the norm within the body individuals thanks to the techniques of the micropower; iii) Christian confession as a technique of power in order to reveal subjects and manage their truth; iv) Society confesses more for the pleasure of doing right within Christianity than for faith.