현대비판철학으로 본 신자유주의적 주체의 형성

The administrative reform demanded by neoliberalism requires both the public servants and citizens to become a specific type of subject. The object of the study is to explore what meanings the concept of neoliberal subject have in public administration by examining first the Foucault's theory of subjectivation and secondly the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek. In this study, individuals are distinguished by the characteristics of split and lack. Those individuals desire to become a subject as a way to cover up their constitutive lack by engaging in the incessant activities of identification on the level of symbolic representation. However, those individuals cannot but fail. Ironically, even though they already know the inevitability of their failures, they continue self-identifying activities as a way of remaining in fantasy. In conclusion, the study argues that the attempt of subjectivation demanded by neoliberal administrative reforms will aggravate the degree of dependency and split of individuals unless we try to reveal ideology's function of maintaining status quo through our activities of bringing out ideological fantasy into the level of consciousness, thereby traversing fantasy.