The concept of biopower and Foucault's critique of psychoanalisys

Abstract

Foucault's "biopower" marks the body in its matter, dominating it through regulating and productive constraints which operate through certain contingent gendered schemes to influence the subjects, and therefore tell their own possibility of appearance. In Foucault's thought psychoanalysis becomes, then, a mechanism of power which constructs truth games as a mean to cause the subject. Such subject has no unity what so ever. At this point an appeal is made for us to make room for other forms of being,of life, and other truth productive systems. Psychoanalysis is inscribed in such debate for its need to consider its constitutive aspect as a discursive modality of the disciplinary power, in its entire ethic realm, in order to allow alternative forms of existence.