Lacking inner conflict produces exhaustion rather than neurosis

Evidence

Such a situation surely creates a certain vulnerability, a new precariousness, a new fragility. The difficulty in experiencing a conflict voids the psyche and in effect replaces neurosis with ”the fatigue of being oneself.” — Catherine Malabou, What Should We Do with Our Brain?, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the over-adaptability/pliability critique of subjectivity she builds toward; also echoes the Frankfurt ‘colonialized ego’ thread.