Abstract

SALZTRAGER, Ricardo. The subject between discipline and control: on institutions of confinement and mass phenomena. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.3, pp.1131-1160. ISSN 1518-6148.

The purpose of this work is to offer a confrontation between the modes of subjectivation favored by the disciplinary society and by the control society. At first, we look into the dynamism of the disciplinary society in order to show that the confinement institutions provide the establishment of modes of subjectivation strongly individualized, although always referred to a norm. Such study will be done from an investigation of the consequences promoted in the subjective life by the devices of vigilance, normalization and examination. In this context, psychoanalytical essays such as Totem and Taboo and "Civilized" Sexual Morality and Modern Nervousness will also be used to discuss the main features of the disciplined modes of subjectivation. Next, we examined the particularities of the society of control in order to demonstrate its favoring of the production of hybrid subjectivities, with a strong tendency to uniformity. Such examination will be undertaken by observing the relative decline of institutional power in the contemporary scene and the resulting rise of innumerous massifying group formations. So, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Self will be of great value for our purposes to the extent that it brings the analyses of modes of subjectivation fundamentally marked by hybrid identifications and by the relative silencing of individuals' singularities.

Keywords : Subject; disciplinary society; controlling society; contemporaneity; psychoanalysis.

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