| Sumario: | There exists, within Foucault studies, a widespread, misleading and unrecognized conflation of the deaths of man and the subject in Foucault's thought. The treatment of these notions as interchangeable has, in turn, given rise to a confused discussion of Foucault's departure from and return to the subject. This paper considers the discussion of the deaths of man and the subject within Foucault studies and seeks to clarify this discussion in the context of Foucault's own works. In so doing, this work seeks to demonstrate the confusion with which these terms are used in the literature and the misunderstandings of Foucault's broader thought that arise from that confusion, specifically with respect to the creation of a largely fictional Foucauldian "departure from and return to the subject."
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