Psychic fragmentation names the postmodern condition better than alienation does

Evidence

Two virtually identical responses then follow: so that’s what it was supposed to mean; so that’s all it was supposed to mean. The problem is twofold: alienation is, first of all, not merely a modernist concept but also a modernist experience (something I cannot argue further here, except to say that “psychic fragmentation” is a better term for what ails us today, if we need a term for it). — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 241

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘psychic fragmentation’ as the diagnostic term that replaces modernist alienation.
• XREF: Echoes the ‘schizophrenic’ and fragmented-subject claims in earlier chapters on postmodern subjectivity. — connects to: Postmodern ‘waning of affect’ fragments the subject into depthless, spasmodic flux. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 154; The possibility of alienation depends on the feeling of lost necessity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1116; Postmodern madness is involuntary, unlike the modernist chosen seer-trip — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 272