Aksaray İletişim Dergisi

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Ethics in Michel Foucault, handled in its form
that to set up oneself as the moral subject of one's behaviour as a result of
the ındividual’s relationship with oneself. In order to reveal the individual's
relations with oneself, Foucault apply to self-anxiety studies. The
self-anxiety that essentially based on the principle of self-attention, involve
self-relations that individual set up physically and mentally. The self-anxiety
that exists as a culture in antiquity also together with relations with others
in the life of society, actualize in an interaction. In this study, Factotum
and Paterson movies, which tell the story of characters who are trying to make
a conscious existence effort through their own literary discourses, are
discussed. Characters that named Chinaski and Paterson how formed a
relationship with themselves in order to realize themselves, and how they made
turn into the ethical subjects of their behavior were examined through the
self-practice. Social dimension of self-anxiety, relations with others, the
people that had close relationship with heroes in stories, it is discussed
under the title of power relations together with their working lives.