Abstract
This works seeks to recover the central components of the theory by Judith Butler as for the formation of the subject that appears in The Psychic Life of Power…. In this theory, the author considers and distinguishes the importance of the psychic dimension of social power in the formation of the subject. The most outstanding proposal indubitably is the introduction and analysis of that dimension by means of the notion of melancholic identification, and her argumentation that this is the foundation in defining the internal and external spaces. This proposal can be considered a theoretical approach to understand the functioning of social power in the construction of identity.
