Individualized therapy depoliticized the collective consciousness-raising of 1970s movements.

Evidence

The spreading of therapeutic narratives was one way in which neoliberalism contained and privatised the molecular revolution that consciousnessraising brought about. The struggle to dismantle neoliberalism will therefore necessarily involve the rediscovery and reinvention of these formerly popular practices. So now we are in a position to answer the question I posed at the start of this essay: When can talking about our feelings become a political act? When it is part of a practice of consciousness-raising that makes visible the impersonal and intersubjective structures that ideology normally obscures from us. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1949

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s general interest in how movements get contained/privatised — echoes the Frankfurt School material on how surplus repression and individualized vocabularies replace collective politics. — connects to: Therapy’s supposed interior self is an ideological fiction masking social origins — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1945; Only collective practice, not individual therapy, can address socially-caused distress — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1947; Therapy co-opted consciousness-raising by converting it from collective to private practice — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1949 (+7 more)
• SEED: Possible essay angle: the history of how ‘talking about your feelings’ shifted from a collective political technology to a privatized therapeutic commodity.

Broader Connections

• Therapy co-opted consciousness-raising by converting it from collective to private practice #corroborates (0.96) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1949
• Therapeutic self-naming privatises suffering and prevents collective solidarity. #corroborates (0.93) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1372
• Therapeutic self-awareness has been stripped of its collectivising political potential #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1372
• Consciousness-raising framed personal problems as political ones requiring collective action. #expands (0.82) — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 61
• Political defeat redirected communal activism into individualized body perfection #exemplifies (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 575
• Immediacy theory replaces collective critique and shared slogans with atomized individual action #corroborates (0.79) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 244
• Fanon’s therapy coupled individual demystification with collective liberation struggle #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1339
• Neither individual detachment nor therapy can substitute for collective material action #corroborates (0.76) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1072