Psycopathological Discourse and Contemporary Subjectivity
Abstract
In this paper we present a discussion about the relation between the discourse of
clinical psychology (psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy) and /contemporary
subjectivity. We could define clinical discourse as a set of practices and knowledge
applied to psychic disorders or, in a roader sense, to the area of mental health. The
term discourse suggests that these practices are formed in the historical and
sociocultural framework that defines its knowledge and application conditions. On
the other hand, contemporary subjectivity is understood as the dynamics and subjective
structures which are typical of these current times, in the framework of the
sociocultural conditions of the so called late modernity or postmodernity. The analysis
is focused on borderline disorders as a discursive expression of the contemporary
subjectivity.
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