• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Psychological life as enterprise: social practice and the government of neo-liberal interiority
  • Beteiligte: Binkley, Sam
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2011
  • Erschienen in: History of the Human Sciences, 24 (2011) 3, Seite 83-102
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/0952695111412877
  • ISSN: 0952-6951; 1461-720X
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  • Beschreibung: This article theorizes the contemporary government of psychological life as neo-liberal enterprise. By drawing on Foucauldian critical social theory, it argues that the constellations of power identified with the psy-function and neo-liberal governmentality can be read through the problematic of everyday practice. On a theoretical level, this involves a re-examination 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 neo-liberal psychological life: life coaching.