Abstract

ROJAS NAVARRO, Sebastián. New subjectivities: a posthumanist and neo-materialist approach to the processes of encounter between children and psychostimulant medication. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.2, pp.118-132. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v8.n2.9.

This article advances a posthumanist and complex approach to the different ways in which children and psychostimulants can co-affect each other, enabling different ontological becomings thanks to the processes of coming together that took place in the niche provided by two schools located in East Side of Santiago, Chile. Grounded in the results of an 8-months praxiography with children aged 9 and 10-years old, I argue for the need of new coordinates to reflect upon these interactions, coordinates different to those granted by the medicalization thesis. This, inasmuch as their approach tends to flatten and reduce the subjectivity of the medicated child to an inner essence, radically separated from the world, which is sustained under a disputed idea of human expectionalism. In respond to this, I advance an idea of subjectivity which is relational, processual and sustained on entanglements with the world and with the medication.

Keywords : Posthumanism; Pharmaceutical entanglements; Children; Subjectivity.

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