Subjectivity and relativism are very related. The latter relies for its definition on the first. Subjectivity is a little trickier because it can refer to multiple things. When I say 'suicidal subjectivity', I'm kind of combining two worlds here, and I grant it is a bit of wordplay. The suicidal term refers to the group or society, contrasted against the subjectivity. The way I am using subjectivity is to refer to the fact that when it is on display, the person is demonstrating that they are not seeing their world in the terms of containing many individuals, but only themselves - increasingly, all actual subjectivity is being 'objectivized' from the standpoint of the one subjectivity, i.e. the world is becoming a projection of their one focal point of experience/knowing.
They don't see other individuals, but rather they only see phenomena that either are congruent with their internal state or are incongruent. As phenomena those other people are no longer persons, but are only representations of ideas existing internally within the one perceiver.
So we see there is a contradiction built into the phrase 'suicidal subjectivity'. The reason it is suicidal is precisely because the pseudo-objectivity of the person who is turning the world into mere phenomena threatens actual subjectivity, by threatening the autonomy of every other subjectivity that exists. It is suicidal because this is naturally anti-social, in fact it is the epitome of anti-social. It is pure solipsism.
I just think the phrase 'suicidal subjectivity' has a better ring to it than solipsism. 'ism's are just too stuffy.
This is all a natural outcropping of psychotherapy culture.
Remember what a fan I am of psychology?
When you financially incentivize a bunch of lefties and jews to tell you everything you want to hear — how none of your problems are your fault or the inherent unfairness of life, but the result of racism or sexism or your mom’s lack of sympathy or a microaggression or repressed memory or autism or adhd or some other disease for which you require special considerations— this is the resultant culture.
Psychotherapy is a religion. We have all been indoctrinated to some extent. Until we reject it we are doomed.
I know you love that field! :)
Freud is your guy ain't he...
Psychotherapy is a religion
I think that is really accurate. When do you think the practice itself became this way? Sixties? It seems like psychotherapy took off in the 60s, but the pharmaceutical side of things was studied heavily during the wars. When you add in the pharmacological aspect in psychiatry, it's really a two-pronged attack. I know psychologists are continuing to fight today for prescription rights, for obvious reasons. That will be a fucking disaster if it comes to pass. Not that it isn't already simple enough for a psych's notes and a patient's report to get any family doc to write a script for antidepressants.
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