Una dictadura invisible. Genealogía e impacto del sufrimiento psíquico en la sociedad de mercado
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Università degli Studi di Trieste
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García Ferrer, B., “Una dictadura invisible. Genealogía e impacto del sufrimiento psíquico en la sociedad de mercado”, Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XXII, 1 (2020), pp. 491-510 [ISSN 1825-5167]. https://doi.org/10.13137/1825-5167/30655
Abstract
Lejos de erigirse como el reino de la libertad absoluta, el capitalismo en su versión neoliberal subsume a la subjetividad en toda su actividad y su esfera vital. Las normas del consumo aumentan su influencia de forma proporcional a la vaguedad con que determinan nuestro modo de vida y nuestras expectativas, generando una libertad paradójica que, en virtud de las estructuras de obligación inherentes a ella, se trueca en sufrimiento psíquico de manera ineluctable. El objetivo del presente artículo es precisamente mostrar las manifestaciones patológicas de dicha libertad paradójica en la constitución de la identidad personal, a la luz de las nuevas tecnologías del poder para imponer su dominio y perpetuarse ad infinitum, un modus operandi sin parangón en la historia.
Far from establishing as the kingdom of absolute freedom, capitalism (in its neoliberal version) includes the sujectivity in all its activity and life areas. The rules for consumption increases its influence in a proportional way to the vagueness it determines our way of life and our expectatives, producing a paradoxical freedom which turns into an inescapable psychic suffering due to the compulsory structures inherent to it. The objective of the current article is, in fact, to show the pathological manifestations of such paradoxical freedom in the formation of a personal identity, taking into account the new technologies of the Power to impose its dominium and perpetuate ad infinitum, a modus operandi without any comparison in history.
Far from establishing as the kingdom of absolute freedom, capitalism (in its neoliberal version) includes the sujectivity in all its activity and life areas. The rules for consumption increases its influence in a proportional way to the vagueness it determines our way of life and our expectatives, producing a paradoxical freedom which turns into an inescapable psychic suffering due to the compulsory structures inherent to it. The objective of the current article is, in fact, to show the pathological manifestations of such paradoxical freedom in the formation of a personal identity, taking into account the new technologies of the Power to impose its dominium and perpetuate ad infinitum, a modus operandi without any comparison in history.