Sam Binkley, “Psychological Life as Enterprise: Social Practice and the Government of Neoliberal Interiority” Journal of the History of Human Sciences 24: 3 July 2011.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695111412877
Abstract
This article theorizes the contemporary government of psychological life as neoliberal enterprise. By drawing on Foucauldian critical social theory, it is argued that the constellations of power identified with the psy-function and neoliberal governmentality can be read through the problematic of everyday practice. On a theoretical level, this is involves a reexamination of the notion of dispositif, to uncover the dynamic, ambivalent and temporal practices by which subjectification takes place. Empirically, this point is illustrated through a reflection of one case of neoliberal psychological life: life coaching.
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