Butler points out the distinction between Foucault and Nietzsche when considering the formation of the subject.
On the one hand, Nietzsche ‚considers the force of punishment to be instrumental to the internalization of rage and the consequent production of bad conscience…‛
On the other, for Foucault, after distilling earlier work on the formation of the subject as an ‚‘effect’ of discourse, '…the subject forms itself in relation to a set of codes, pre-scriptions, or norms and does so in ways that not only (a) reveal self-constitution to be a kind of poiesis (poiesis - means 'to make'; it is an action that transforms; it refers to 'bringing-forth'; a threshold occasion: a moment of ecstasis when something/s becomes another) but to establish self-making as part of the broader operation of critique.‛
Notwithstanding the difference between Foucault and Nietzsche, both see how morality transfers a creative impulse.
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