The aim of this study is to analyze the changes observed in the subject and in the society in the period that marks the transition from a society based on production for a new model, based on consumption. In this context, we focus on the approach of the slight ailment that oppressed the modern subject, as worked out by Freud, to emphasize the anguish that affects the contemporary, whose analysis does not discard the valuable teachings of Lacan. About the anguish of this subject, which, by other authors, can be called post-modern, it talks about how its manifestation can happen from the sensation of breaking the ties that connect the Symbolic to Real, and thus, place it in socially agreed existence. For contributing to this vertiginous feeling, two points deserve notability, the decline of authority and the consequent planning of relationships, hallmarks of contemporary that can be identified as cause/effect of a sharp decline in the ability of representation of the subject.
anguish; post-modernity; consumption; subject; desire