De-psychologization disarms the psychological steering that sustains domination

Evidence

Neoliberal psychopolitics is a technology of domination that stabilizes and perpetuates the prevailing system by means of psychological programming and steering. Accordingly, the art of living, as the praxis of freedom, must proceed by way of de-psychologization. This serves to disarm psychopolitics, which is a means of effecting submission. When the subject is de-psychologized – indeed, de-voided (ent-leert) – it opens onto a mode of existence that still has no name: an unwritten future. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 181

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘de-voided subject opening onto an unwritten future’ resonates with the profanation argument already extracted from this chapter — stripping sacred/bound forms to release free use. — connects to: The art of living requires killing psychology to create unnamed modes of being — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 180; Authoritarian individuals resist introspection and psychotherapy during high social threat — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 796; The master’s belief in the slave’s inessentiality is an illusion masking real dependency — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 199 (+1 more)

Related

• Freedom is practiced by killing psychology to create unnamed individualities (similarity 0.82)
• The art of living requires killing psychology to create unnamed modes of being (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Authoritarian individuals resist introspection and psychotherapy during high social threat #complicates (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 796