Globalisation and loss of identity

Abstract

The process of a de-territorialized or multilocal world productive system, which is more informational than industrial and more speculative than productive, has led to a crisis in social structures and the breakdown of identity referents that formerly had provided a sense of meaning to individual and social life. We are facing both a breakdown and a disarticulation of institutional and symbolic mediations from the past, and also a process of reorganization of differences and inequalities that are having a strong impact on identities. The individual and collective construction of subjectivity is acquiring multiple forms, some of them unexpected, others unprecedented. In what way does reality question psychoanalysis?

Keywords:

• globalisation
• identities
• reconfiguration

Notes

¹The main argument and content of this paper has been published in GRADIVA Revista Chilena de Psicoanálisis 2008, Vol. 9, No. 2 (ICHPA).