REGULISANO SOPSTVO / REGULATED SELF

Abstract

Starting from Agamben's understanding of the dispositive, Foucault's concept of technologies of the self, Derrida's deconstruction of the ontological status of identity and Lacan's concept of identity desubjectivization, in the article that follows, we analyze identity as a symbolic product of the reification and internalization of the auto-centric nature of the semantic order into the consciousness of individuals. The disposition, as a pre-experiential symbolic space of an image of the world, determines the technology of the self and the type of self-experience. The pre-modern World picture produces an ethnocentric self, the modern World picture produces an egocentric self and the postmodern World picture produces a logocentric self. Identity has no ontological status - it is the result of attributing meaning to the biological presence of individuals. Identity is not subjective than, as pure objectivity, it is the product of a reification of the semantic order as a subject. Identity has a conservative function because as a result of the internalization of the symbolic order into the consciousness of individuals, its function is to preserve the semantic order that establishes it, not to overcome it.