Abstract des Autors

The concept of discipline traditionaly suggests the image of a sterilization of life. Processes of domination, they prohibit, they are supported to block initiatives and forces, and they shape the body into passivity. A conception of physical exercise can emerge from these ideas, one regarding the docility of the body. But the process of rendering the body docile is not possible whithout a liberation of forces, without a sollicitation of initiatives. It is then possible to look at physicl exercise as a paradox, that is, a process of subjugation through autonomization. It is possible to read Foucault in a way that emphasizes what the author has suggested in Discipline and Punir, that is a "positive economy". It is this feature of Foucault's theory that is developed in this article. Verf.-Referat