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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Main Author: LaMothe, Ryan 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science Business Media B. V. [2018]
In: Pastoral psychology
Year: 2018, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-173
IxTheo Classification:VA Philosophy
ZB Sociology
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Civilization
B Neoliberal ethos
B Entrepreneurship
B Freud
B Subjectivity
B Macmurray
B Faith
B Fanon
B Market society
B Capitalism
B Commodification
B Sociopathic tendencies
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Summary: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
Contains:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-017-0761-5