This article is situated in the field of analysis of public policies and aims to explore both the role of language and discourse as appropriate domains for spreading policies, reflecting the importance of understanding the relation between subjectivity and language. A choice was made on psychoanalytic tools that allow us to examine the effects of language in the subjective constitution. In order to accomplish this task, we examined the discourse about the "failure of educational policies" as a symptom, associated with several types of discourse: the master's, the capitalism's, and the universities'. All of them imply the actual presence of the unconscious in the social links established by educational policies nowadays.
Educational failure; Educational policy; Implementation; Psychoanalysis; Discourse theory
