Freedom is practiced by killing psychology to create unnamed individualities

Evidence

Following Foucault, the art of living may be understood as a practice of freedom, bringing forth an entirely different mode of existence. It unfolds as de-psychologization: ‘The art of living is the art of killing psychology, of creating with oneself and with others unnamed individualities, beings, relations, qualities. If one can’t manage to do that in one’s life, that life is not worth living.’ The art of living stands opposed to the ‘psychological terror’ through which subjugating subjectivation occurs. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 180

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the contemporary valorization of psychology and self-knowledge; anti-psychologism links to Foucault’s late work and to the self-cultivation idea in Hadot’s philosophy as a way of life. — connects to: Exemplary individuals become free by forming the genus that forms them — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 588; The art of living requires killing psychology to create unnamed modes of being — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 180; Freedom operates through, not against, the psychological structure that constitutes us — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 724 (+3 more)
• STORYSTEM: A fictional figure who self-therapizes their way out of a corporate/subjecting identity by refusing psychological self-knowledge could dramatize this de-psychologized art of living.

Related

• The art of living requires killing psychology to create unnamed modes of being (similarity 0.91)
• De-psychologization disarms the psychological steering that sustains domination (similarity 0.82)
• Freedom consists in being a singularity, not an individual person (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The art of living requires killing psychology to create unnamed modes of being #corroborates (0.98) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 180
• Freedom operates through, not against, the psychological structure that constitutes us #contradicts (0.90) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 724
• De-psychologization disarms the psychological steering that sustains domination #expands (0.85) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 181
• Freedom consists in being a singularity, not an individual person #expands (0.75) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 194
• Psychological guilt stems from evading one’s absolute freedom through bad faith #expands (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 71