Neoliberal Psychological Romanticism: From the Primal Scream to the Collective Unconscious Part II

Between 1970 and about 1980, the humanistic psychology of Maslow, Rogers, Perls and Janov was a direct rebellion against the neoliberal realism of the entrepreneurial self. Or was it? In the 1980s and 1990s Jung’s and Campbell’s spiritual psychology theories appeared to be a complete rejection of neoliberal capitalism. But what functions did they perform for neoliberalism – and for which social classes?

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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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