Therapeutic self-naming privatises suffering and prevents collective solidarity.

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

• DEFINE: Crisply defines the difference between feminist consciousness-raising and the neoliberal therapeutic narrative that inherits its language.
• ADDENDUM: Speaks directly to the privatised-suffering mechanics of class shame; could support the sacrifice/corpses piece’s logic of who gets to name and mourn collective pain.
• XREF: connects to: Collective action can reframe self-estrangement from dread into transcendence — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1089; Self-protective ingroup solidarity can backfire by preventing stereotype disconfirmation — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1072; Naming systems rather than blaming individuals is the antidote to scapegoating politics — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1073 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Shame arises from individual isolation and dissolves within collective action #corroborates (0.90) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 735
• Naming systems rather than blaming individuals is the antidote to scapegoating politics #corroborates (0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1073
• Depoliticized group identity gets displaced onto and poisons private life #corroborates (0.80)
• Collective action can reframe self-estrangement from dread into transcendence #corroborates (0.75) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1089
• Self-protective ingroup solidarity can backfire by preventing stereotype disconfirmation #qualifies (0.72) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1072