Mental health, subjectivity and the contemporary pharmacological device

Abstract

The following article intends to discuss the crisis of the idea of subjectivity in contemporaneity as a biopolitical ideal, to which would be associated other modern normative and political contents, such as reflexivity, autonomy and psychic normality. Faced with the technological acceleration that governs informational capitalism, the result of the planetary realization of liberalism itself, its success as a technical and economic ideal, and everything that demands the full availability of individuals, there is an erosion of the whole set of concepts associated with the subject’s metaphysics, paradoxically, this is the very basis of liberal thought. Investments in reflexivity, sanity, autonomy of individuals can no longer support the dromological needs of capital. From this perspective, and having the work of Canguilhem as support, we intend to understand the technical meaning of the psychopharmacological device that presides over the life of a considerable part of the individuals in the contemporary world.