Therapy co-opted consciousness-raising by converting it from collective to private practice

Evidence

The spreading of therapeutic narratives was one way in which neoliberalism contained and privatised the molecular revolution that consciousnessraising brought about. The struggle to dismantle neoliberalism will therefore necessarily involve the rediscovery and reinvention of these formerly popular practices. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1949

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the ch82 and ch92 argument that therapy reproduces Thatcherite denial of society through privatised self-work. — connects to: Consciousness-raising’s self-transformation methods seeded postmodern identity politics — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 866; True therapy must cultivate consciousness of unhappiness, not adaptation — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 76; Consciousness-raising once collectivised private stress in a way Marxism-Leninism could not — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1373 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• True therapy must cultivate consciousness of unhappiness, not adaptation #qualifies (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 76