ABSTRACT
In his seminal study of the birth of the prison, Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault (1979) has carefully analysed the importance of the examination as a social procedure for the exercise of disciplinary power. The examination
establishes over individuals a visibility through which one differentiates them and judges them…. In it are combined the ceremony of power and the form of the experiment, the deployment of force and the establishment of truth. At the heart of the procedures of discipline, it manifests the subjection of those who are perceived as objects and the objectification of those who are subjected.
