Cultural Psychopathy and Criminal Policy in Liquid Normopathy

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between psychopathy, culture, and criminal policy, based on the hypothesis that cultural psychopathy is not only a clinical anomaly but rather a critical figure that describes a form of subjectivity functional to liquid normopathy. The contributions of Bauman, Han, Foucault, Zaffaroni, Žižek, and Lacan are reviewed to explore how the dissolution of the symbolic bond, the fall of the big Other, and the imposition of regimes of positivity give rise to a subject adapted to enjoyment, performance, and exclusion. It is argued that this cultural psychopathy directly influences criminal policy by configuring expendable subjects through contemporary penal rationality.