| Sumario: | The aim of this essay is to reflect on the development of subjectivity using modernity as a reference. To do so, literature is used as well as the sociological and psychological analysis of certain Frankfurt School authors: TW Adorno, M. Horkheimer,Herbert Marcuse and Walter Benjamin. The essay is divided into three parts. In the first, the term subject is thought of either as epistemic – the subject of knowledge – or as empirical – that which is studied by psychology and psychoanalysis. Using Benjamin as a reference, the second part discusses the notion of subjectivity in Modernity, based on the distinction between subject living and experience. This part also emphasizes the object studied by Psychoanalysis, and presents the thesis that the individual, as conceived by classical formation, is no longer possible. In the last part, also by means of literature, the thesis of de-individualization is presented and so the ideological role of education and psychology on claiming an inexistent subjectivity, strengthening its simulacrum, which is put in the place of that which could already exist given the objective conditions reached.
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