Christian confession and its application in psychoanalytic therapy

Abstract

In this work we analyze the dispositive of the confession in the West and its application in a psychoanalytic therapy to understand the development of modern subjectivity, whose analysis was made by Foucault linked to the born of modern sciences and their basis in the subject. Modern sciences have been founded and built by the examination of the personal life of the individuals since the beginning of the Christian pastoral to the modern psychology thanks to the psychoanalysis. The confession is promoted as a process of knowledge about the individual and as a disciplinary dispositive with the result that he has been internalized and became a part of the actual subjectivity. We are going to follow the philosophical Ethos of Foucault pretending to understand: how was the confession introduced in the modernity? And, how can the issue of the modern subject be addressed? With this questions, a releasing of disciplinary power is being raised.