This article intends to contribute towards the field of studies on the relationships between health and work, and particularly regarding discussions on the relationship between subjectivity and work. Subjectivity is a concept widely used in psychology, even though there is little consensus about its meaning. This article seeks to discuss the concept of subjectivity in Michel Foucault's work, and suggests that this may be a strategic concept, in that it makes it possible to think in terms of the indissociability between individual and collective, interior and exterior, inside and outside, and individual and society. Through this, the dichotomies traditionally present in the field of psychology and in studies on the relationship between work and health are broken.
Work; Social psychology; Governamentality