Arquegenealogia do sujeito borderline

Abstract

We defend the thesis that an individual diagnosed with borderline personality disorder becomes a borderline subject under a psychiatrist's prescriptions through the objectification and subjectification processes, both of which are validated by disciplinary techniques available in the hospital institution and materialized in the statements conditioned by the clinical and academic discourses, among others, since the publication of the first scientific articles on this issue, in 1957, to date, in 2021, in accordance with the selection criteria of the statements. Having said so, we based this work on the Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to think about the construction of a methodological procedure based on archaeological and genealogical perspectives of the borderline subject's analysis. We discuss the notions of enunciation, discourse, discursive practice, knowledge-power relations, discipline principle, device, and subject to enable the operationalization of an archegenealogical analysis of the borderline subject. So, to carry out the investigation of the corpus. We elected the following specific objectives: a) to identify in the corpus regularities of historical conditions of producing enunciations that make up the materiality of clinical and academic discourses under the support of the archaeological perspective; b) to investigate in the corpus how the clinical discourse emerges from the enunciations based on medical knowledge from the construction of an established truth about the subjects' discursive practices in hospitals; c) to demonstrate how discipline fosters techniques of body control in hospitals to show the existence of a psychiatric device operationalized in the corpus; d) to verify which discursive elements underlie the process of subjectivation of the borderline subject by analyzing clinical case studies and selecting cultural factors; e) and to present the borderline subject's constitution in the current history of the Covid-19 pandemic by analyzing the corpus. To meet our specific objectives, we built an analysis corpus by selecting discourse sequences from forty scientific articles published on PubMed related to psychiatric, psychological, neurological, or legal approaches to borderline personality disorder. After assessing the hypotheses raised during the writing, we reached the following conclusions: the body of an individual with borderline personality disorder becomes a subject in the corpus as it is objectified within the power relations in the hospital institution, as well as the availability of discipline techniques coexisting with the establishment of objects of discourse; the psychiatric device employed in the corpus is made up by a game of conditioned truths to locate the borderline subject objectified in the subject positions conjecture in the clinical discourse compared to the legal discourse; and the elements of subjectivation perceived in the corpus come from techniques of the self-established by discursive practices fostered in the relationship between the borderline and psychiatric subjects screened by a health crisis as a condition of production-possibility, such as, in the present time of this thesis, the condition of possibility triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.