A Report on Neoliberal Psychology, Part One
On the difficulties that arise in any attempt to trace social character to neoliberalism.
Psychology has a long tradition of trying to pinpoint the sickness that most expresses a period. Freud invented such fundamental concepts as the unconscious, transference, drive, and the Oedipus complex in order to understand hysteria, a common ailment of bourgeois men and women of the time. Their mysterious, often bizarre symptoms, believed to be roote…
