Subjecting the Self to Power: A Review in The Psychological Life of Power by Judith Butler

Submission, is the most action that makes a person live fear in all its details, yet submission may turn into a reassuring state at the moment when a person is consistent with his idea, so he becomes a follower subject to accountability or subject to it, and this may lead us to question the reasons why the self is subject, and transforms it from a free active self to a defeated self, accepting the state of submission to authority, satisfied with it and surrendering, which is what the American philosopher Judith Butler addressed in her book ( The Psychic Life of Power ). In her book, Butler discusses the concept of the subject of an authority, trying to explain how that subject submits, accepts, and sometimes gets involved in submitting to an authority that loses its identity. How does Butler explain the subjection of the self to authority? What is the psychological form exercised by power over the self? And what makes extra-self power a psychological form that constitut...