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What About Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society

According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today's pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses, while individuals are being made to think of themselves as one-person enterprises. Love is increasingly hard to find, and we struggle to lead meaningful lives. In What about Me?, Paul Verhaeghe's main concern is.

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  • "According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today's pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses, while individuals are being made to think of themselves as one-person enterprises. Love is increasingly hard to find, and we struggle to lead meaningful lives. In What about Me?, Paul Verhaeghe's main concern is."@en
  • "Noch nie, heißt es, ging es uns so gut - doch noch nie haben wir uns so schlecht gefühlt. Die neoliberale Ideologie durchdringt unser Leben inzwischen bis in den letzten Winkel: Sie prägt unsere Selbstwahrnehmung, unsere Beziehung zu unserem Körper, unseren Partnern und Kindern - in anderen Worten, unsere Identität. Offenbar hat die neue Freiheit und Selbstverantwortung eine dunkle Kehrseite. Ihre implizite Botschaft lautet: Jeder kann perfekt sein, jeder kann alles haben. Wer versagt, hat sich nicht genug angestrengt; wer scheitert, ist allein schuld. Beschämung und Schuldgefühle sind die Folge, Wut, Aggression und diffuse Trauer, Selbstzweifel und>>bipolare Störungen<<- oder gar Täuschung und Betrug, wenn es gilt, die ausufernden Leistungskataloge der modernen Arbeitswelt zu erfüllen. Keineswegs zufällig werden sie uns im Gewande objektiver, wissenschaftlich geprüfter Erfordernisse präsentiert, gegen die aufzubegehren zwecklos ist. In einer furiosen Anklage zeigt der Psychoanalytiker Paul Verhaeghe, welche Auswirkungen das Selbstverständnis einer Gesellschaft, die jeden Lebensbereich unter das Diktat der Ökonomie stellt, auf die Psyche der Menschen hat."
  • "According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today's pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses - even individuals are being made to think of themselves as one-person enterprises. Love is increasingly hard to find, and we struggle to lead meaningful lives."
  • "According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today & rsquo;s pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses, while individuals are being made to think of themselves as one-person enterprises. Love is increasingly hard to find, and we struggle to lead meaningful lives. In What about Me?, Paul Verhaeghe & rsquo;s main concern is how social change has led to this psychic crisis and altered the way we think about ourselves. He investigates the effects of thirty years & rsquo; acceptance of neo-liberalism, free-market forces, and privatisation, and the resulting relationship between our engineered society and individual identity. It turns out that who we are is, as always, determined by the context in which we live. From his clinical experience as a psychotherapist, Verhaeghe shows the profound impact that social change is having on mental health, even to the extent of affecting the nature of the disorders from which we suffer. But his book ends on a note of cautious optimism. We can once again become masters of our fate & mdash; if we accept the challenge."@en

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  • "Identiteit"
  • "Und ich? Identität in einer durchökonomisierten Gesellschaft"
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  • "What about me? : the struggle for identity in a market-based society"
  • "What about me? : the struggle for identity in a market-based society"@en

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