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November 7, 2005
A suggestion. The reason why many people take anti-depressants is to aoid what philosophy recommends: the process of reflecting and rethinking by which one's fears and anxieities and unconscious feelings are reclaimed. Isn't the latter the way that relationships are built with others?
Leunig, The life you lead
Yet our market culture places an emphasis on rugged individualism, selfishness, hardness, social life as competition, and the neo-liberal shaping oneself for great success and the high life, power, recognition.
No time for therapy in that culture. That admits something is wrong or we are a failure. Hence the ethos of taking chemicals in postmodernity?
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,752299,00.html