In this article, we are looking into some Goffman' s studies, lead by currently discussions of institutional analysis, Michel Foucault' s contributions upon microphysics of power and some other researchers from the production of subjectivity at the Collective Health. In spite of not having those theoretical resources from the later, Goffman was already able to explain in his analysis further than he could suppose. We believe that Goffman produces accurately mappings of the psychiatry hospital devices, by describing the geography of power into the total institution, and concerned to the details of everyday life. His investigations of the intra-institutional dimension from such mechanisms are still at present and efficient for the comprehension of production of subjectivity at institutional context. Also, we have come across many remarkable echoes between Goffman' s and Foucault' s works.
institutional analysis; total institutional; microphysics of power; mapping; production of subjectivity