Abstract

SILVA, Laura Belluzzo de Campos. Subjectivity is commodity and the normotic ilnesss. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.63, pp. 59-78. ISSN 0101-3106.

According to Foucault, the disciplinary society produces a soul/subjectivity endowed man, by means of whom the power accesses the bodies making them docile. In Marcuse's view, the consumer society transforms workers into consumers by accessing their subjectivity through the creation of desires and needs for consumption. This makes them passive accomplices of their own domination. In this society, which Debord defined as "the society of the spectacle", the commodity form permeates all social relationships. They start being mediated by images which replace and characterize the social reality. According to Bauman, in the contemporary society, subjectivity becomes a commodity which should try to increase its market value. In this incoming movement of self-production, favored by the new information technologies, in which everyone should be able to continually display their capacities, the culture of narcissism blossoms as it was theorized by Lasch. In this context, new forms of subjectivation and psychic suffering, which challenge the psychoanalytic clinic, are produced. Among them the normotic illness, exactily as it was defined by Bollas, can be included.

Keywords : Disciplinary society; Consumer society; Society of the spectacle; Narcissism; Control society.

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