Psychological Knowledge, Production of Subjectivity and Implications with the Bio-Politics

Authors

  • Ana Cristina Sundfeld Faculdade de Saúde Pública - USP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v19i3.33512

Keywords:

psychological knowledge, bio-politics, production of subjectivity, medicalization

Abstract

This article discusses the production of psychology as a science in parameters of modern rationality
and it examine its relationship with biopolitics, thinking with Foucault that psychological discourses
can operate as control strategies, standardization and support to certain forms of subjectivity. It
reflects about the effects of psychological knowledge in the processes of subjectivity in contemporary
world and the practices of the medicalization. Moreover, it search to present new propositions and
possibilities for psychology. Points out that to enhance liberators procedures for intervention and
favorable to the production of an active subject in the vocational training plan is essential to analyze
the psychology of manufacturing and science and the establishment of notions such as subject, health,
pain, interventions and forms of care and their effects. It should be noted that people who are affected
by the presence of the other and move in different directions meet and logical, rather than just
reproducing techniques which operate on the other. In listening to the unpredictable, these
professionals put themselves in openness to subjectivity elicited processes in meetings.

Author Biography

Ana Cristina Sundfeld, Faculdade de Saúde Pública - USP

Psicóloga, Mestre em Psicologia Clínica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas - PUCCAMP. Atuou como docente em cursos de graduação em Psicologia. Doutoranda em Saúde Pública pela Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São paulo - USP.

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Published

2016-11-09

How to Cite

Sundfeld, A. C. (2016). Psychological Knowledge, Production of Subjectivity and Implications with the Bio-Politics. Interação Em Psicologia, 19(3). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v19i3.33512

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Short Communications

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