Re: Anti-psychiatry

[Mike Ballard <swillsqueal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just thought I'd share this insight with you on the
question.

Regards,
Mike B)

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The analyst and his patient share this alienation, and
since it does not usually manifest itself in any
neurotic symptom but rather as the hallmark
of "mental health," it does not appear in the
revisionist consciousness. When the process of
alienation is discussed, it is usually treated, not as
the whole that it is, but as a negative aspect of the
whole. To be sure, personality has not disappeared: it
continues to flower and is even fostered and educated
-but in such a way that the expressions of personality
fit and sustain perfectly the socially desired pattern
of behavior and thought. They thus tend to cancel
individuality. This process, which has been completed
in the "mass culture" of late industrial civilization,
vitiates the concept of interpersonal relations if it
is to denote more than the undeniable fact that all
relations in which the human being finds itself are
either relations to other persons or abstractions from
them.

--Marcuse in EROS AND CIVILIZATION


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