"The Government of the Living" by Michel Foucault is a significant work that focuses on ethical regimes of truth and self-technologies. In his lectures at the Collège de France in 1979 and 1980, Foucault examines how, in Christian Western culture, individuals are required not only to be obedient but also to speak the truth about themselves. Through a new reading of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" and the analysis of practices from early Christianity, such as baptism and confession, Foucault sheds light on the pastoral economy of public confession. This work marks the beginning of Foucault's later writings and offers profound insights into the ethics and aesthetics of existence.