Del “cura pederasta” al “sacerdote pedófilo”. Elementos para la genealogía de un monstruo biopolítico (España, siglo XIX al XXI)

Francisco Vázquez García

doi:10.5354/0719-4862.2022.68527

From the “pederast priest” to the “pedophile clergyman”. Elements for the genealogy of a biopolitical monster (Spain, 19th-21st centuries)

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Francisco Vázquez García Universidad de Cádiz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3950-4313

Abstract

This paper follows a track proposed but not developed by Michel Foucault. This, in the lectures on the Abnormal, linked the character of the criminal religious with the figure of the "political monster", but focused on the type of tyrant. In our work, following this suggestion not continued, the genealogy of the ecclesiastical man abusing minors is explored. On the one hand, the profile of the "pederast priest" is traced as a biological enemy of the nation and of the class, in the context of the Spanish culture at the end of the colonial Empire, in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. On the other hand, this form of subjectivity is contrasted with that of the “pedophile clergyman” as it currently appears in the testimonies of the victims, in the media and in the social sciences. The intention is to show the belonging of both classes of person to very different biopolitical scenarios, despite the continuity of the teratological motive.

Keywords:

political monster, pedophile priest, biopolitics, anticlericalism, archeogenealogy

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