Both over-identification as victim and unprecedentedly real abuse can coexist
Evidence
So here is the second antinomy in full: there is an excessive tendency amongst many subjects today to identify as victims of abuse; however, there is far more abuse than had previously been imagined. How can both these claims be true — and if they are, what does it tell us about the therapeutic imaginary? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1942
Categorization
- QUESTION: Fisher poses the antinomy as genuinely open — the resolution he gestures toward has to do with abandoning the autonomous individual, worth keeping to follow.
- XREF: connects to: Elite sexual abuse proved far more widespread than previously supposed — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1939