ABSTRACT
When a young person has a disordered subjectivity, the question can be posed:
‘How is the young person involved in the constitution of that subjectivity?’ To
respond to this question this chapter turns to the third of Foucault’s (1983a) three
axes of genealogy, the technologies of the self. In so doing, an analysis is made
of the relationship of these technologies of the self to truth and power and the
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of truth, power and the self.
