ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses post-modern subjectivity, and how it differs from modern subjectivity. The basic structures of our world have been overturned by post-modernity. And this inevitably implies a radical transformation of our subjective condition. And since our subjective condition varies historically, people can surmise that they have just entered a new phase which particularly affects their major institutions producing the subjects, such as the family, schools, health care, mental health and justice. Post-modernity has no other presentable figures of the big Subject to propose. While the preceding periods were defined by the distance of the subject to what founds it, post-modernity can be defined as the abolition of the distance between the subject and the big Subject. To return, finally, to the theme of the chapter: regarding the absence of the big Subject or the Other one can notice the rising of a sentiment of omnipotence in individuals who believe that they have become the almighty Other themselves.
