Self-help ideology makes individuals feel responsible for misery that corporations create

Evidence

For inception to work, Arthur and Cobb tell Saito early in the film, the subject must believe that the implanted idea is their own. The self-help dictums of psychotherapy – which Cobb affirms at the end of Inception – offer invaluable assistance in this ideological operation. … Yet our misery, like our dreams, our cars and our refrigerators, is in fact the work of many anonymous hands. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 533

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Fisher’s broader hauntology critique and connects to Eva Illouz’s Cold Intimacies — the psychotherapeutic conversion of social misery into self-fixable private pathology. — connects to: Self-help ideology has become the spontaneous ideology of the neoliberal era — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1502; Therapeutic self-naming privatises suffering and prevents collective solidarity. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1372; Manifesting self-help severed individuals from collectivity and prior knowledge. — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 610 (+1 more)
• SEED: Seed for an essay on how ‘believing the idea is your own’ is the operative lie of self-branding culture and the corporate wellness industry.

Broader Connections

• Therapeutic self-naming privatises suffering and prevents collective solidarity. #expands (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1372
• Self-help ideology has become the spontaneous ideology of the neoliberal era #expands (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1502
• Manifesting self-help severed individuals from collectivity and prior knowledge. #expands (0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 610