Psicanálise, neoliberalismo e o sujeito para além da racionalidade totalizante

Abstract

This paper discusses the notions of subject and reason from the point of view of psychoanalysis. We will see how the criticism of malaise in Freud and the relationship of psychoanalysis with reason can collaborate in an indispensable way for the understanding of modern rationality and the production of its subject. After reflection on the relationship between psychoanalysis, science and reason, we will discuss the neoliberal rationality and the way its subject is produced, from a market logic, competition and performance. Finally, we will see how Freud’s thinking around the psyche can be taken as an orientation to think an undetermined subject, beyond the formalization of the discourses of reason and above all of neoliberal rationality.