The Travails and Tragedies of a Market Civilization: A Psychology of Faith Perspective

In this article, I consider how the emergence of a market society, dominated by a neoliberal capitalist ethos, fosters a market faith and entrepreneurial subjects. More particularly, I argue that market faith is contractual and accompanies a calculative, reifying rationality that contrasts with soci...

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Auteur principal: LaMothe, Ryan 1955- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer Science Business Media B. V. [2018]
Dans: Pastoral psychology
Année: 2018, Volume: 67, Numéro: 2, Pages: 155-173
RelBib Classification:VA Philosophie
ZB Sociologie
ZD Psychologie
Sujets non-standardisés:B Civilization
B Neoliberal ethos
B Entrepreneuriat
B Freud
B Subjectivity
B Macmurray
B Faith
B Fanon
B Market society
B Capitalism
B Commodification
B Sociopathic tendencies
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Résumé:In this article, I consider how the emergence of a market society, dominated by a neoliberal capitalist ethos, fosters a market faith and entrepreneurial subjects. More particularly, I argue that market faith is contractual and accompanies a calculative, reifying rationality that contrasts with social-communal faith that is ideally unconditional, covenantal, and personalizing. Since faith is inextricably linked to subjectivity, I contend and describe two subjectivities associated with a market society's disciplinary regimes and faith. The first subject of a market society is a neoliberal subject with sociopathic tendencies. The second subject that a market society fosters is a depleted subject—a depleted homo oeconomicus—forced to live beyond his/her psychological means.
ISSN:1573-6679
Contient:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-017-0761-5