sujeito psicológico com potencial crítico e cultivo da reflexão sobre o si

One utopia depicts the psychological subject as a subject with critical potentials. As people have acquired psychological modes of self-understanding, including the capacities to reflect and evaluate life possibilities, they may put these acquired skills to use in criticising debilitating conditions, including those conditions under which their psychological self-reflective skills were cultivated and disciplined in the first place. A version of this argument was put forward by Foucault, who thought that ―new human capacities may come into existence as effects of forms of domination, only to then become bases of resistance to those same forms of domination‖ 

(Foucault cited in Patton, 1998, p. 71).