Foucault's Founders of Discourse

Foucault calls these figures, founders of discursivity, who open up a field that welcomes disagreements and debates. They can be either those who create a new field that is adhered to or someone who creates a new genre like Anne Radcliffe did with the Gothic horror genre. So here he's beginning to ask, or he's asking, it's not just that we're dealing with someone who produces a text that's their own,. Like George Orwell writing in 1984, like a standalone thing. What happens when we consider a writer, like Marx or Freud, who kind of birthed a whole field of thought that spawns hundreds and thousands of other texts that essentially pay homage to