The history of madness would be the history of the Other of that which, for a given culture, is at once interior and foreign, therefore to be excluded (so as to exorcize the interior danger) but by being shut away (in order to reduce its otherness); whereas the history of the order imposed on things would be the history of the Same of that which, for a given culture, is both dispersed and related, therefore to be distinguished by kinds and to be collected together into identities.