Neoliberalism converts political antagonisms into individualised medical conditions.

Evidence

Neoliberal culture — which came to dominance as the anti-psychiatry movement was waning — has individualised depression and anxiety. Or rather, many cases of depression and anxiety are the effects of neoliberalism’s successful tendency to privatise stress, to convert political antagonisms into medical conditions. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1761

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The privatization-of-stress claim reframes depression and anxiety as displaced politics rather than individual pathology, a dense and provocative reframing.
• XREF: connects to: Medicalizing depression blocks political explanation of its systemic causes — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 46; Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1601; Neoliberalism decomposed political collectivities through privatising the mind. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 536

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal policy privatised stress into individual mental illness #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1601
• Neoliberalism decomposed political collectivities through privatising the mind. #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 536