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Subjectivity and governability: issues for psychology

This essay argues about the modes of subjectivity, emphasizing the construction and subjectivity experimentation modality and, at the same time, casting doubts on the traditional notions of subjectivity that are present in the Psychology programs. It has the aim to promote discussions to counterpointing the idea that the human beings are made of a substance that is timeless and without political significance. The arguments take support in the concept of governability and power's technologies, like the "me technologies", discussed by Michel Foucault. This way, the Psychology might be a tool to investigate these technologies and to comprehend the human life movements, or, it simply can become a part of them without criticism.

subjectivity modes; psychology; governability


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