Foucault and ideal types

Dear Foucauldians,

I am just writing on a section about ideal types and discourse analysis. =
A contradiction, you might think, but maybe we have to learn to think in =
paradoxes anyway... The question I would like to ask is about a source: =
I remember I read somewhere a passage in which Foucault criticized the =
concept of ideal types, but although I could guess why and how he did so,=
I can't find the source anymore. Does anyone, by chance, know where I =
may have this from?

Best,
Thomas
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