MARIANO RAJOY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: LIFE, POLITICS AND NEOLIBERAL SUBJECTIVITY

En confianza. Mi vida y mi proyecto para Espana is the autobiography that Mariano Rajoy published in the midst of the election campaign in 2011, shortly before being elected president. The work sets out a political agenda while at the same time composing and promoting a governing identity. In this sense, it describes an "art of government" understood as the way of conducting the behaviour of those whom he aspires to govern and who tells his life story. It is therefore possible to recognise in this discourse certain technologies of governmentality that guide the individual of our time, even more so if one takes into account the fact that neoliberalism is a mode of production of subjectivity. Beyond Rajoy's self-representation as an ideal candidate, this article analyses how the autobiographical self has internalised the political programme he defends. Consequently, it is not so much the model life of the leader that is exposed but the modelled life of the citizen, the supposed self-realisation of a free subject regulated by the neoliberal rationality that it advocates.