Social fragmentation precedes and causes psychic fragmentation, not inner nature

Evidence

This differentiation and specialization or semiautonomization of reality is then prior to what happens in the psyche — postmodern schizo-fragmentation as opposed to modern or modernist anxieties and hysterias — which takes the form of the world it models and seeks to reproduce in the form of experience as well as of concepts … We have learned much from psychoanalysis, and most recently from the speculative mapping of fractured and multiple subject positions, but it would be a pity to attribute those to some unimaginably complex new internal human nature rather than to the social templates that project them: human nature, as Brecht showed us, being capable of an infinite variety of forms and adaptations, and along with it, the psyche itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 793

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘waning of affect’ via its mechanism: schizo-fragmentation of the psyche is modeled on prior social differentiation, not on internal human nature.
• QUESTION: Falsifiability question for the reader’s project: if psychic fragmentation is claimed to be caused by social templates, what evidence would disprove it?
• XREF: connects to: Arendt traced totalitarian susceptibility to fragmentation in modern lives — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 261; Psychic well-being fundamentally depends on the existence of public space — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1503