Mental illness and authorship are two important themes in the boundaries of Michel Foucault's archaeological investigations. Within these limits, unreason and authorship meet, as his diagnosis of modernity, in an extraordinary experience with the language. Outside these limits, madness and authorship have irreconcilable differences in social status. The practical implications of the relationship between reason and asocial, already present in the diagnosis of classical times, acquires the primacy in his analysis, and woof of language gives rise, in the investigations of the philosopher, to the political plot.
mental illness; authorship; language; society