Abstract

The main goal of this article is to bring attention to Michel Foucault’s generally ignored critical conception of the experience of love. Examining lesser-known writings, it will showcase the relevance and complexity of the Foucauldian reflection on this theme, placing it in the philosophical context of its emergence, i.e. the analysis of the subject’s modes of veridiction and relationship with itself. It will display the connections between this perspective and the political activity and thought developed in the italian queer and transfeminist movement concerning the relationship between feelings, relational possibilities and material structures. The Foucauldian conception of the subject of love discourse will thus be found capable of interacting not only with current political and social events, but also with innovative perspectives on the history of the emotions and affect theory