Psychoanaliza a polityka: stawka podmiotu
Psychoanalysis and politics: the role of the subject

Summary/Abstract: The article is of an interdisciplinary nature: it is devoted to one of the central categories of philosophy (the subject) but its essential object is constituted by the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan and by an attempt to apply this theory to socio-political issues. The attention of the reader will be focused on the Lacanian construction of the subject – a concept which is fundamen-tal in understanding the present political condition. Identification, understood as the process by which the subject becomes the object of political activity, is presented as a central point of the pa-per. As a result, politics is considered a mechanism for imposing identity and thus psychoanalysis seems to be the contrary – a tool that can reveal political illusions. In this way, the Lacanian per-spective can be perceived as a chance to overcome the limits of the absolutely rational Cogito and some of the scientific approaches of the political sciences.

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