Fear as Biopolitical Device

Fear can be understood as a component of subjectivation that runs through human history winning different contours and being expressed in affective, employment, social and sexual relationships. This article seeks to discuss the fear as a device say about biopolitics which can be understood as a set...

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Autores: Mansano, Sonia Regina Vargas, Nalli, Marcos
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM)
Repositorio:Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
Idioma:portugués
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.editorarevistas.mackenzie.br:article/10425
Acceso en línea:http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/10425
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:medo
subjetividade
biopolítica
contemporaneidade
modos de vida
fear
subjectivity
biopolitics
contemporary times
ways of life
miedo
subjetividad
época contemporánea
formas de vida
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Sumario:Fear can be understood as a component of subjectivation that runs through human history winning different contours and being expressed in affective, employment, social and sexual relationships. This article seeks to discuss the fear as a device say about biopolitics which can be understood as a set of practices, rules and customs buildings participating in the production of modes of existence. The investigation was divided in three moments: first, fear is approached in a psychoanalytic perspective, with a focus in psychodynamics of defense mechanisms; then, are analyzes the ways in which fear meets specific social functions, being widespread in relationships that minimize and weaken the subject and collectivities; finally, it explored the links between fear and bio-power, emphasizing your dissemination strategy. At the end of the study, noted that far is shared defensive as a survival strategy that can culminate in experimentation with other possibilities of existence.