Technologies of the Self
Technologies of the Self are "which permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform I themselves in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection, or immortality."[1]
Foucault
Foucault > Archaeological Research, Discourse, Subjugated Knowledge, Technologies of the Self
Mechanisms of Compliance
Mechanisms of Compliance > Mechanisms of Force, Mechanisms of Indoctrination, Mechanisms of Surveillance, Technologies of the Self, Toxic Socialization
Syncretic Terms
Creation Template > Comprehensive Framework, Discourse, Existential Narrative, Existential Paradigm, Functional Narrative, Master Narrative, Master Story, Meaning Structure, Ruling Ideology
Related LP Terms
Non-LP Related Terms
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ Foucault, Michele. “Technologies of the Self.” In Technologies of the Self, edited by Luther H Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H Hutton, 16–49. University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. p. 18.
Mechanism of Compliance Mechanism of Emancipation
