Michel Foucault's 'self-practices' are those practices that have the self as subject and object. For Foucault, experience is formed through subjective practices, so the subjects are the correlate of these practices, and a variation in them will have an effect on the formation of the subject itself. When a new practice is initiated, the field of experience is being expanded. Therefore, new practices, which can be both in speech and in behavior, of a single person or in the form of movements (such as the feminist, the homosexual, ...), are transforming the individual, changing the rules by which they are governs and creates a new form of subjectivation.
Foucault uses the term practices of freedom to refer to the practices of self that serve to be constituted, because through them the subject is actively formed himself. In this self-constitution these practices will always be regulated by acceptance or rejection, reproduction or creation within each context. When Foucault speaks of self-practices he puts a lot of emphasis on the context, since depending on the historical moment and the cultural environment the practices that will be carried out will be very different. Thus the way in which we recognize ourselves and construct ourselves as subjects is very different between the different epochs of history. For this reason Foucault establishes two forms of subjectivation within the moral scope: These two proposed models have a very marked contrast, since while the former acts through submission without giving room to the possibility of questioning the type of practices to be carried out, since the truths promoted by this model are obligatory; the second encourages the subject to search for their own values. The acquisition of practices is governed by the feedback they receive in carrying them out, in accordance with subjective desires and aspirations, and the demands and demands of social order. Our desires and pleasures are influenced by social and political goals, so the codes of society are seductive and similar to subjective interests for individuals to identify with them. In this way the codes that are chosen are those that are linked to produce functional subjects to a particular social or political order. The presence of political and social power in the creation of identity is seen in this section, as a conflict arises and a difficulty to be able to differentiate between what is freely chosen and what power has imposed. Therefore, according to Foucault's theory, the practices of self consider those that question codes and reject those that confirm them.
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