Therapeutic self-awareness has been stripped of its collectivising political potential

Evidence

In social movements like feminism, self-awareness, or naming one’s problems, was the first step to radical collective awareness. For this generation, it is the only step, completely detached from any kind of solidarity; while they struggle with similar, and structurally rooted, problems, there is no sense of “we”. The possibility of collective politicisation through naming one’s suffering is easily subsumed within these larger structures of domination because others who struggle are not seen as fellow sufferers but as objects of scorn. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1372

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Fisher condenses in a few sentences a paradigm-shifting observation: consciousness-raising’s collectivist step has been amputated under neoliberalism, with fellow sufferers recast as objects of scorn. Dense enough to sit with.
• XREF: connects to: Therapeutic self-naming privatises suffering and prevents collective solidarity. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1372; Therapy’s self-help ethos tacitly endorses Thatcher’s individualist politics — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1501; Consciousness-raising framed personal problems as political ones requiring collective action. — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 61 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Therapeutic self-naming privatises suffering and prevents collective solidarity. #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1372
• Consciousness-raising framed personal problems as political ones requiring collective action. #contradicts (0.80) — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 61
• Therapy’s self-help ethos tacitly endorses Thatcher’s individualist politics #corroborates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1501
• Personal moral self-examination is the precondition for political change #contradicts (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 437
• Open political discussion blurred the line between personal morality and structural critique #exemplifies (0.75) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1246