Efectos del conocimiento know-how en la subjetivación contemporánea

Abstract

The present article intends to make a contribution to the study of subjectivization in our days, considering that the vast expansion of know-how knowledge, in social life organization, is modifying the way in which people use their judgment and common sense in every day life. For a better understanding, this article has been organized in the following way: it starts by introducingthe Freudian psychoanalytic conceptualization with regard to subjectivization, stressing the importance of subjectivating knowledge and judgment’s psychological function; it shows as well how, since modern times, this know-how began to displace the subjectivating knowledge; it proceeds by integrating to this discussion the perspective of contemporary philosophers who convey the difficulties found in current subjectivization. Finally, it concludes with the idea that the current world order, based on know-how knowledge, would be hampering subjectivization such as we conceptualize it so far, and would perhaps be giving guideline to new forms of subjectivization.