Dividuals explores the other side or hidden side of modern subjectivity as seen in (mostly
four) early modern Spanish classics. Veering away from the hypertrophied notions of
individuality and identity which constitute the bases of our own post-humanism and even
anti-humanism this essay looks into how as humans and as humanists we have a long history
of showing dividuality a never-ending split in our beings. The split manifests itself in the
humanist's split between historicist socio-economic explanations of subjectivity (i.e.: how
modern man is historically bound to a time a space and a specific mode of production
ideology) of which Marxism has been the most characteristic expression and explanations of
subjectivity in which on the contrary the human psyche emerges every day of every era in
relation to more universal traits such as language (i.e.: how modern man was always there as
long as the construction of individuality depends on language and its endless signifying
mechanics) of which psychoanalysis is the main discourse. But the split also manifests itself
in the deeply contradictory nature of Don Quixote Celestina Lazarillo or Diana.
