{"id":289,"date":"2019-04-09T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/?p=289"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T15:17:35","slug":"self-thinking-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/self-thinking-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Thinking &amp; Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Foucault writes, &#8220;&#8230;writing about oneself appears clearly in its relationship of complementarity with reclusion: it palliates the dangers of solitude; it offers what one has done or thought to a possible gaze; the fact of obliging oneself to write plays the role of a companion by giving rise to the fear of disapproval and to shame&#8221; (1). Foucault, from this statement, is proposing that writing is a method for self-thinking and self-reflection. In this quote, he writes of an individual writing about themselves and also writing creatively in the form of plays. Foucault writes of three different analogies: notebooks and community aesthetic, practice of askesis, and lastly writing as spiritual combat. Overall, Foucault believes in writing and expression through written art as means of self-reflection and thinking while also connecting spirituality and community ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foucault writes, &#8220;&#8230;writing about oneself appears clearly in its relationship of complementarity with reclusion: it palliates the dangers of solitude; it offers what one has done or thought to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/uncategorized\/self-thinking-reflection\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self-Thinking &amp; Reflection<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng296.digitalwcu.org\/WeeklyWriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}