Neither individual detachment nor therapy can substitute for collective material action

Evidence

That, I concede, is far too neat an ending to this story. If performing and partitioning and projecting are all techniques of avoiding the Shadow Lands, then neither Buddhist detachment nor Freudian integration of the unconscious is enough to help us confront that which we have been avoiding. Our crises are material and profoundly collective, and so, ultimately, we will be able to bear unbearable realities only if we also work to change them. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1072

Categorization

• QUESTION: Klein openly concedes her own neat ending is insufficient — worth tracking whether this concession genuinely resolves the device or undercuts it.
• XREF: connects to: Fanon’s therapy coupled individual demystification with collective liberation struggle — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1339; Only collective practice, not individual therapy, can address socially-caused distress — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1947; Individualized therapy depoliticized the collective consciousness-raising of 1970s movements. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1949