Neurosis and the subjectivity of time

Abstract

This paper tries to give an account of a possible relationship between a mode of subjetivity and the ideology product of a socio-political-economical mode of organization called capitalism, especially in its current version called “neoliberalism”. A relationship that is considered necessary, since “neoliberalism” is sustained in the attempt to produce and reproduce itself in subjectivities characterized by weak thinking, that is to say that it does not put into play logical operations but reproduces set phrases and opinions that do not question this mode of Neoliberal production. These current subjectivities, characterized by what Lacan calls: “passion of ignorance”, “mental weakness” in neuroses and “madness of belief”, are not new positions in the neurosis. The novelty can be found in the way in which this prevailing ideology propitiates these neurotic positions and in turn these positions are necessary to sustain this ideology. In the final section “The possible and the contingent” it is conjectured about the way in which this articulation between subjectivity and ideology impinges and hinders analytical practice.