ABSTRACT
Changing the Subject is about transformations. The multiple meanings in the title refer to an interplay of changes in which psychology is implicated. We explore the way it helps to create the current conceptions of individual and society and the consequent implications for strategies of change. This book works towards a theory of subjectivity which implies a different politics of transformation. The book’s subtitle ‘psychology, social regulation and subjectivity’ reflects its three sections. The first focuses on a critique of individual-society dualism and its effects on psychological theory and practices. The second develops alternative perspectives which show psychology’s part in the practices of social regulation and administration and how the very notion of ‘individual’ is a product of discourses which have developed through these practices. The third section takes us into retheorizing subjectivity on the foundations of the first two.
