This article explores German Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han’s notion of psychopolitics and his concept of the neoliberal subject. For Han, mental processes are now the primary target of power. This means that, according to Han, biopower must give way to what he calls psychopower since perspectives that critically seek to understand neoliberalism through a biopolitical lens are no longer adequate to contemporary regimes of neoliberal achievement. This article examines and evaluates Han’s argument that Foucauldian biopolitics is obsolete in today’s neoliberal age because of biopolitics’ primary focus on the body over mental processes. We suggest that, instead of emphasizing the need to move beyond biopolitics, Han’s theorization of psychopolitics could benefit from paying closer attention to some of Foucault’s insights on biopower and from identifying key connections between biopolitics and psychopolitics. By highlighting some important continuities between Foucault’s biopolitics and Han’s psychopolitics (instead of emphasizing the discontinuities between both theorists’ perspectives, as Han tends to privilege), this article seeks to move towards improved theorizations of concepts like achievement, subjectivity, otherness or optimization, concepts that are key to Han’s understanding of contemporary neoliberal practices.

本文探讨了德国韩国哲学家韩炳哲的心理政治概念和他的新自由主义主题概念。对汉来说，心理过程现在是权力的主要目标。这意味着，在韩看来，生物权力必须让位于他所谓的心理权力，因为批判性地寻求通过生物政治视角理解新自由主义的观点已不再适用于当代新自由主义成就制度。本文考察并评估了韩的论点，即福柯式的生命政治学在当今的新自由主义时代已经过时，因为生命政治学主要关注身体而非心理过程。我们建议，与其强调超越生命政治的必要性，韩寒的心理政治理论可以受益于更密切地关注福柯关于生物权力的一些见解以及确定生物政治和心理政治之间的关键联系。通过强调福柯的生命政治学和韩寒的心理政治学之间的一些重要连续性（而不是强调两个理论家观点之间的不连续性，因为韩寒倾向于特权），本文试图转向改进的概念理论化，如成就、主观性、他者性或优化、概念这是韩寒理解当代新自由主义实践的关键。