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The author draws on experiences as a researcher in a qualitative study that employed both ethnographic and interview methodologies as well as experiences as a patient in psychotherapy to theorize the subjective productions immanent to becoming a subject of knowledge discourses, where becoming a researcher and becoming a patient are two exemplary cases. The object of the present analysis are these disciplinary discourses and the use of them for knowledge production, exposing how they govern the ways that technologies simultaneously call forth and emerge from power to produce the subject as the object of their analyses. Drawing from experiences in the field and in session, the author demonstrates how disciplines produce discourses that categorize lived experience for the production of knowledge. The article traverses between subject positions and subjective experiences, equally interpellated within …