My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed.
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault (ed. Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1988) - ISBN: 9780870235931