"The field of normativities defines the historical space in which the formalism of legal techniques faces the regulatory criteria built up by other social practices. Foucault’s analyses point out the technical means as the very core of historical development. Because of this attitude, his research is affected by the model of Sozialdisziplinierung though Foucault does not reproduce the same drawbacks of the latter. However, Foucault’s view of “obedience” is ambivalent: on the one hand, the historical analysis of the notion of economical government (18th century) seems to distance Foucault from the relationship between order and obedience as a power relationship; on the other hand, the survey of Christian pastoral care??”a rationality still considered valid??”recognizes in obedience the basic mechanism of this kind of power."