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- - - - daughter Anna- led psychoanalyst movements
        
        Democratic example
        
        controlling society
        
        Psychoanlysts convinced they not only understood these dangerous forces (repressed feelings), but that they knew how to control them.
        They would use their techniques to create democratic individuals because democracy left to itself, failed to do this
        
        Martin Luther King Jr
        
        Martin Luther King Jr: “there are some things in our society, in our world, that I am proud to be maladjusted.
        I never intend to adjust myself to racial segregation and discrimination, religious bigotry, economic conditions that take necessities from the many and give luxuries to the few.”
        
        Trying to create a lobotomised sense of happiness
        
        Democratic/ capitalism society
        
        The sickness of self lay not within the individual but within society itself
  - - - Nietzsches "Übermensche"
        
        What is it?
        
        Übermensch represents an idealised individual who transcends conventional norms and limitations, forging their own path and creating their own values.
        
        self power
        
        Individual can construct reality (metaphysics), judge its own knowledge creation (epistemology), and fundamentally believe in subjective constructed values of ethics (axiology).
        
        goals
        
        This figure embodies the fullest expression of the will to power, embracing a life of self-affirmation and self-mastery..
        
        pros
        
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- - - - Second wave feminism, Black Civil Rights in the U.S., gay and lesbian liberation, and the American Indian movements
  - - - Conservatives now use as an umbrella term for progressive values (often with negative connotations)
- - - - Prior to modernity, scholars noted that a person’s sense of self was largely rooted in the collective and objective community.
        
        pre-modernity
        
        values such as duty, obedience and interconnectedness prevailed. The concept of self and selfhood was deeply entrenched in tradition and hierarchy.
        
        The individual's identity was intricately woven into the fabric of family, community, and social structures, with roles within these hierarchies defining one's sense of self.
        
        autonomy and agency were limited but not in a harmful way; decisions were commonly made collectively, and individual behaviour was heavily regulated by societal norms and expectations.
      - E.g
        
        foundation for new
        age modern selfhood
        
        Descartes’ famous declaration,
        “I think therefore I am.”
        
        main idea
        
        it shifted the focus of selfhood from external sources to an internal one - one of mind and consciousness.
  - - - Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The Social Contract," significantly shapes the understanding of modern selfhood under liberal thought.
        
        Rousseau quote
        
        "be your authentic self"
- - - - Commodification of societal trends and norms
        
        The war against age
        
        problem with modernity
        
        insight
        
        We don’t attribute wisdom to age anymore (in a cultural way)
        
        Western culture’s association to aging with decline and obsolescence fuels (and is fuelled by) a desire to dissociate ourselves from our age- but such forms of subtle and overt agesim express contempt for something that is essentially human
        
        The campaign against agism is becoming an increasingly pervasive cultural sediment. This is the way things are settling down on the way many advanced societies live.
        
        Because of our condition as creatures of finitude, as belonging to species bound together in their fellowship of mortality we age. Things happen to our bodies, such that who we are is fundamentally an existence that is lived in the shadow of death, or perhaps the consciousness of death