OMG, dude. I cannot for the life of me bring myself to have motivation to continue with school life. I am constantly tired, hungry, stressed, and pressured that it is driving me crazy. I just want to sleep like for a year. However, this is my last semester of school so I really want to do my best, but I have had senioritis since sophomore year. Only Ice Cream, Mint Chocolate Chip, Cookies N Cream, or Rocky Road, can make me happy and content at this point. Sorry that you have to hear me complain through a letter, but I have no one else to talk to. I wish I had a webcam to Skype (sigh). Anyway, how was the last letter? Did you understand what I was trying to say? I sure hope you did because I don’t think I can explain it better than
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I just learned about this term a couple of weeks ago (really like a week ago), but I feel like I have been aware of this term since like forever. This term was coined by Foucault, but we, the class, read about the term in an article called “The Republic of Therapy” by Vihn Kim Nguyen. Okay, so the term “Technology of the Self” is not that hard to define. According to Nguyen, Foucault defined this term as finding different techniques to do to the body, soul, and mind that can transform the person doing these techniques to reach a state of happiness. For example, I have turned my body into a canvas and have several tattoos and piercings in different areas. Doing this to my body brings me great satisfaction and heightens my level of happiness because to me, tattoos and piercings makes me beautiful. Can you see where I’m going with this? Do I need to clarify it with the poem of Emily Dickinson? No? Well, I have to do it anyway. Here’s the poem …show more content…
Despite what the poem meant, we cannot assume that Dickinson was this type of person (remember authors function). In letter four, I had wrote that her actions and her writings could have been signs of a mental disorder (found connections that she could have been mentally ill and her poetry was a reflection of it), but with the lack of medical knowledge back then, it’s understandable that she was just considered a difficult person to understand. Now, with this term we can connect it with the theme of a possible mental disorder because she could have been using a technique, in this case writing, to heighten her level of happiness. If you think about, Dickinson communicated by poetry because she couldn’t be around people. Knowing that she couldn’t directly talk to them probably made her sad and hence loneliness became a factor in her life. Nobody likes to be alone, not even a person that has a mental illness, I should know. Dickinson used the “Technology of the Self” to make herself feel better despite what she could have
I just learned about this term a couple of weeks ago (really like a week ago), but I feel like I have been aware of this term since like forever. This term was coined by Foucault, but we, the class, read about the term in an article called “The Republic of Therapy” by Vihn Kim Nguyen. Okay, so the term “Technology of the Self” is not that hard to define. According to Nguyen, Foucault defined this term as finding different techniques to do to the body, soul, and mind that can transform the person doing these techniques to reach a state of happiness. For example, I have turned my body into a canvas and have several tattoos and piercings in different areas. Doing this to my body brings me great satisfaction and heightens my level of happiness because to me, tattoos and piercings makes me beautiful. Can you see where I’m going with this? Do I need to clarify it with the poem of Emily Dickinson? No? Well, I have to do it anyway. Here’s the poem …show more content…
Despite what the poem meant, we cannot assume that Dickinson was this type of person (remember authors function). In letter four, I had wrote that her actions and her writings could have been signs of a mental disorder (found connections that she could have been mentally ill and her poetry was a reflection of it), but with the lack of medical knowledge back then, it’s understandable that she was just considered a difficult person to understand. Now, with this term we can connect it with the theme of a possible mental disorder because she could have been using a technique, in this case writing, to heighten her level of happiness. If you think about, Dickinson communicated by poetry because she couldn’t be around people. Knowing that she couldn’t directly talk to them probably made her sad and hence loneliness became a factor in her life. Nobody likes to be alone, not even a person that has a mental illness, I should know. Dickinson used the “Technology of the Self” to make herself feel better despite what she could have