A study about total institution was developed. We have searched into the novel “O Ateneu”, by Raul Pompéia, which are the subjectivity disciplinary producer agencies in the institution milieu. It is an institutional analysis taking as a research field a case of literature, ruled by Goffman´s and Foucault´s works. Goffman demonstrated which the agencies are, how they work and indicated the production of total institutions. Foucault provided a source of understanding of the subjectivity production process into the contemporary society, and, specifically, into the total institution milieu. Goffman analyzed the non-discursive practices, articulating them subtly, and revealing that the bizarre and apparently insignificant “details” of the quotidian institution speak by themselves. It was possible to perceive the microphysics plan of institutional relations, dipping into the different strategies where power spreads itself, circulates, dominates and produces knowledge and subjects.
total institution; subjectivity production; agencies