Human, pastorate and psychology

Abstract

This work starts from a doubt thrown by Foucault about the end of the pastoral era, trying to highlight the possible convergence points among some practices of the Psychology in different institutional contexts and the pastorate, while power tool. In that course, we tried to give emphasis to that we considered the effects of those convergence points: a production of a humanity associated to the docile character. That analysis is addressed, mainly, for the subjectivation processes essentialized, unified, internalized and well delimited as effects of exercises of power-knowing in the field of what it is stipulated to call psychological science and their crossings with the perspectives of warranties of universal rights. In general lines, the question that it is put for the psi practices is in which measure they collaborate in the naturalization of the servitude and of conducts pacified as eminently human, being configured as a new modality of pastoral power, or as Foucault says, as a modality of a laic pastorate.