ABSTRACT
The present study is concerned primarily with Michel Foucault's ideas and language, and so author shall not attempt biographical analysis. But at several points in author analysis he draw attention to Foucault's projection of particular images of himself, and to the way that such self-projection anticipates and controls reader reception of his work. Foucault works from the premiss that not only his own discourse, but he himself, have been shaped and given form by a complex network of pre-existing, but ever-changing, discursive structures. The best response to the recognition of this situation would be to immerse himself, and become lost in, these multiple and diverse structures. Foucault indicates that institutional and legal forms of power have succeeded in promoting themselves as a primary determining force. Throughout author analysis, he calls attention to the interrelation or conflict between Foucault's own 'form' and 'content'. The approach is mostly absent from other critical studies of Foucault.
