Limit-experience
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A limit-experience is a type of action or experience which approaches the edge of living in terms of its intensity and its seeming impossibility. This approach has led to the seeking of limit experiences as a sort of mysticism[citation needed]. A limit experience breaks the subject from itself. The idea is associated with Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Michel Foucault.[1]
Limit experience as defined by Michel Foucault deals with the traditional conceptions of reality and the need for them to be challenged and exposed. According to the argument, discipline associated with social control drives pleasure out of our bodies only to reemerge as fantasy. Social control is also discussed in his book "A history of sexuality". In which he addresses the way regulation of sexuality masks a deeper form of social control. Limit-experience is a type of somaesthetic "edgework" that goes on to test the limits of ordered reality.
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