FreeWriting on Foucault

Michel Foucault, one of the most famous sociology of the second half of 20th century, wrote in french. He published very influential books such as Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality. People have complained about him being a difficult reader. Partly it was because of the language difference, which caused the difference in sentence structure. Other than that, it was largely because of his own writing skills being very, very abstract. Then the question comes: Is it necessary?

One theory is that when we don't understand something straightforward, we give credit for it. That's why there's all these academic writers who write in the fashion they don't even understand. give me some credit for it, I'm not bullshitting. When I just start to pick up english, I would subconsciously say something I don't even understand myself, because I subconsciously programmed to think english as "something I don't understand". So if I say something I don't understand, I'm speaking in English! Of course I understand it totally it this doesn't work. It's only in a subconscious level.

In another theory, Foucault uses these complex style of writing to reveal a social structure full of complexity. If I digest down the sentences in a programming way, they start to become clearer. You can see there are fractals: cluases under a clause which is under some other clause.

So which theory wins out? Does the writing style has to do with the purpose of the very article? What if he writes in the same style for all the papers?