The “Surveillance of Désirée”: Freud, Foucault, and Villette

Like many other 17-year-old children, Miss Ginevra Fan showwee of Charlotte Bronte's Willette (1853) practiced the self-stated "universal word game". This is the habit she is familiar with. "Selection" in a conversation - this is a convenient alternative to any missing word in any language she may speak at that time (115-16; Chapter 6). The choice of Ginevra's word is not a coincidence in the text of this complete (usually bilingual) word game. In addition, Mary Pollack confronts the novel's "rich language nature" in various contexts (54). In fact, that choice seems to be an iterative codeword for strange x, or for the object itself, "things, spirit and secret" (557; ch.38). House, and literary theorist Nostalgia, will reappear for a long time, if not self-euphoric. The word with the most replacement of "things" in the text is "shape" like "nuns dark and tampered" (569; page 39), but the problem is that such double Or "form of guardian". "(Floyd 143) Incredibly eliminated ourselves or continuing forks in other synonymous expressions, which makes homesick seeking origins a problem.After a year Lucy Was at the entrance to Mrs. Baker's pension.The "Very Limit" (305; Chapter 21) states that the "shape" of the "paving stone" of the reconstructor only provides a limited entry, The abyss can point to an incredible expression of uncertain value.

The circular monitor is a model for external monitoring, but the term quoted by French philosopher Michel Foucault represents internal monitoring. In the panorama view, observers are no longer outside the observer. The line of sight of the observer is not external behavior, but internalization until each prisoner (economic entity / worker) becomes his / her own security guard. "Therefore, the main role of Panopticon is to induce a state that is consciously and permanently visible among prisoners and to ensure automatic operation of power.

In the village of Foucault, you can constantly monitor - or even think of continuous monitoring - even the most subtle details of daily life. This system is what Foucault calls "blockade of discipline" - like a dungeon, all prisoners are isolated and skeptical, and the disciples he controls are absolute in life and death . This seems to be more true today. Employers can obtain a program that secretly tracks the keys of teleworking employees to confirm that they are working. Parents can use the software to monitor the usage of children's mobile phones. Because governments around the world have passed the law, they can collect Internet data from people suspected of planning a terrorist attack. Even public transit cards can be used to monitor citizen's body movements.

As social scientists seriously consider the idea of ​​supervising society, there are all journals devoted to research, monitoring and society. Panoramic surveillance, conceived by Jeremy Bentham and then analyzed by Michel Foucault (1975), is gradually being implemented in the form of technology to monitor our every move. This type of surveillance is considered to be a form of continuous monitoring that observation stations are scattered and the observed contents have never been directly transmitted. Today, digital security cameras capture our movements, observers track us through our mobile phones, police around the world use face recognition software.