Psychoanalytical Criticism to the Neoliberal Colonization of Subjectivities: a proposal for reflection

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MARIA CAROLINA A BRAZ DA SILVA AZEVÊDO

The need to develop this work is justified by the current context of dissolution of democratic models, of scrapping and constant increasingly intense attacks on the social state, of a movement for the despolitization of citizens and of privatization of the political, of reduction and precariousness of rights and guarantees, whether labor, social security, environmental health, education, etc. Thus, based on the hypothetical-deductive method, on the hypothesis that neoliberalism operates in the colonization of subjectivities, we develop this work by first investigating what are the elements that constitute neoliberal governmentality. Next, we seek to understand how subjectivities are formed and colonized by neoliberal devices. Finally, we proposed the path of psychoanalysis in a critical-political reading as an alternative hypothesis for the emancipation of subjectivities and a way to establish a new social order based on the sharing of the common, that is, on the rescue of community assumptions in the political sphere.

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neoliberalism, colonization of subjectivities, psychoanalysis, emancipation

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A BRAZ DA SILVA AZEVÊDO, MARIA CAROLINA. “Psychoanalytical Criticism to the Neoliberal Colonization of Subjectivities: a proposal for reflection”. Astrolabio: revista internacional de filosofia, pp. 97-112, https://raco.cat/index.php/Astrolabio/article/view/413770.