The art of living requires killing psychology to create unnamed modes of being
Evidence
Following Foucault, the art of living may be understood as a practice of freedom, bringing forth an entirely different mode of existence. It unfolds as de-psychologization: ‘The art of living is the art of killing psychology, of creating with oneself and with others unnamed individualities, beings, relations, qualities. If one can’t manage to do that in one’s life, that life is not worth living.’ The art of living stands opposed to the ‘psychological terror’ through which subjugating subjectivation occurs. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 180
Categorization
- XREF: Echoes the book_so_far claim that ‘the neoliberal regime reappropriated Foucault’s ethics of the self into a self-exploitation device’ — Foucault’s own ethics here become the counter-resource. — connects to: De-psychologization disarms the psychological steering that sustains domination — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 181; Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018; Existential psychoanalysis rejects the unconscious and makes psychic acts coextensive with consciousness — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1340 (+6 more)
Related
- Freedom is practiced by killing psychology to create unnamed individualities (similarity 0.91)
- De-psychologization disarms the psychological steering that sustains domination (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- A thing must die in becoming its own concept
#corroborates(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1028 - Art redeems existence precisely by not striving to attain being
#corroborates(0.80) - Conceptualization inevitably imposes form on formless life
#corroborates(0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 1018 - Existentialism sought lived experience rather than explaining it away through abstract systems
#expands(0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1025 - Constructing one’s self as an object of knowledge is mortiferous
#corroborates(0.75) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1480 - Existential psychoanalysis rejects the unconscious and makes psychic acts coextensive with consciousness
#qualifies(0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1340 - Existential psychoanalysis decodes behavior to reveal each person’s fundamental choice of being.
#qualifies(0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1346