Identidades instáveis: a síndrome borderline e a condição pós-moderna

Abstract

Based on an analysis of the profound social and cultural changes that underlie what has been described as the new expressive subjectivity of late modernity, this essay tries to show its constitutive affnity with the pathology of identity that many authors consider as a central feature not only of the borderline or narcissistic syndrome, but also of many of the most common and representative mental disorders of our time.