ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the discipline of Psychology, focusing specifically on its role in biopolitics and notions of sexual difference under neoliberal capitalism. To do this, I refer to the borderline, which I identify as the person, usually woman, within the diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder to demonstrate the ways in which neoliberal capitalist discourses have created a new type of feminine monster in their failure to account for the Woman. The borderline, I argue, has become a monster constituted by a failure to operate adequately within neoliberal capitalist discourse as found in psychiatric nomenclature. I utilize the work of Bracha Ettinger (2006) and her theory of the matrixial borderspace and borderlinking to demonstrate how the borderline has the potential to be understood as a liminal space. This takes Skott-Myhre’s (2014) claim seriously that the unconscious and desire are the sight of revolutionary potential and the borderline then can become understood as a subject with latent potential to challenge neoliberal capitalist subjectivity premised on the demand to enjoy without lack.
