К теме личное - политическое
...спешу поделиться еще одной очень крутой статьей (инглиш опять), расписано, как мне показалось, все, что есть из популярного сбивающего с толку в этой теме (не могу отделаться от ощущения, что где-то здесь ее у нас уже видела, то ли упомянутую, то ли даже частично переведенную): Therapy and How it Undermines the Practice of Radical Feminism (By Celia Kitzinger, As published in Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Renate Klein and Diane Bell [Spinifex 1996]).
В частности, про упомянутый недавно у АП феномен "самости", которую можно "очистить" от патриархальной дряни, найти, выудить, раскопать, открыть и т.д. в себе ( Психоаналитическая переработка идеи о бессмертной душе, которая, в какой куче навоза не окажись, остаётся неизменной со знаком "+". По сути, отрицается социальное происхождение "личности", "характера" и бессодержательность этих понятий "самих по себе".):
In this model, the “self” is naturally good, but has to be uncovered from beneath the layers of internalised oppression and healed from the wounds inflicted on it by a heteropatriarchal society. Despite her manifest differences from Gloria Steinem in other areas, lesbian feminist therapist Laura Brown (1992) shares Steinem’s notion of the “true self.” She writes, for example, of a client’s “struggle to recover her self from the snares of patriarchy” (pp. 241-42), by “peel(ing) away the layers of patriarchal training” (p. 242) and “heal(ing) the wounds of … childhood” (p. 245); in therapy with Laura Brown, a woman is helped to “know herself” (p. 246), to move beyond her “accommodated self” (p. 243) and discover her “true self” (p. 243) (or “shammed [sic] inner self” p. 245) and live “at harmony with herself” (p. 243). In most feminist psychology, this inner self is characterised as a beautiful, spontaneous little girl. Getting in touch with and nurturing her is a first step in creating social change. It is “revolution from within.”
И объясняется в чем патриархальная ловушка такого подхода:
Such approaches are a very long way from my own understanding of “the personal is political.” I don’t think social change happens from the inside out. I don’t think people have inner children somewhere inside waiting to be nurtured, reparented, and their natural goodness released into the world. On the contrary, as I have argued elsewhere (Kitzinger: 1987; Kitzinger and Perkins: 1993), our inner selves are constructed by the social and political contexts in which we live, and if we want to alter people’s behavior it is far more effective to change the environment than to psychologise individuals. Yet as Sarah Scott and Tracey Payne (1984, p. 24) point out, “when it comes to doing therapy it is essential to each and every technique that women see their ‘real’ selves and their ‘social’ selves as distinct.” This means that the process of making ethical and political decisions about our lives is reduced to the supposed ‘discovery’ of our true selves, the honouring of our “hearts desires.” Political understandings of our thoughts and feelings is occluded, and our ethical choices are cast within a therapeutic rather than a political framework. A set of repressive social conditions has made life hard for women and lesbians. Yet the “revolution from within” solution is to improve the individuals, rather than change the conditions.
В частности, про упомянутый недавно у АП феномен "самости", которую можно "очистить" от патриархальной дряни, найти, выудить, раскопать, открыть и т.д. в себе ( Психоаналитическая переработка идеи о бессмертной душе, которая, в какой куче навоза не окажись, остаётся неизменной со знаком "+". По сути, отрицается социальное происхождение "личности", "характера" и бессодержательность этих понятий "самих по себе".):
In this model, the “self” is naturally good, but has to be uncovered from beneath the layers of internalised oppression and healed from the wounds inflicted on it by a heteropatriarchal society. Despite her manifest differences from Gloria Steinem in other areas, lesbian feminist therapist Laura Brown (1992) shares Steinem’s notion of the “true self.” She writes, for example, of a client’s “struggle to recover her self from the snares of patriarchy” (pp. 241-42), by “peel(ing) away the layers of patriarchal training” (p. 242) and “heal(ing) the wounds of … childhood” (p. 245); in therapy with Laura Brown, a woman is helped to “know herself” (p. 246), to move beyond her “accommodated self” (p. 243) and discover her “true self” (p. 243) (or “shammed [sic] inner self” p. 245) and live “at harmony with herself” (p. 243). In most feminist psychology, this inner self is characterised as a beautiful, spontaneous little girl. Getting in touch with and nurturing her is a first step in creating social change. It is “revolution from within.”
И объясняется в чем патриархальная ловушка такого подхода:
Such approaches are a very long way from my own understanding of “the personal is political.” I don’t think social change happens from the inside out. I don’t think people have inner children somewhere inside waiting to be nurtured, reparented, and their natural goodness released into the world. On the contrary, as I have argued elsewhere (Kitzinger: 1987; Kitzinger and Perkins: 1993), our inner selves are constructed by the social and political contexts in which we live, and if we want to alter people’s behavior it is far more effective to change the environment than to psychologise individuals. Yet as Sarah Scott and Tracey Payne (1984, p. 24) point out, “when it comes to doing therapy it is essential to each and every technique that women see their ‘real’ selves and their ‘social’ selves as distinct.” This means that the process of making ethical and political decisions about our lives is reduced to the supposed ‘discovery’ of our true selves, the honouring of our “hearts desires.” Political understandings of our thoughts and feelings is occluded, and our ethical choices are cast within a therapeutic rather than a political framework. A set of repressive social conditions has made life hard for women and lesbians. Yet the “revolution from within” solution is to improve the individuals, rather than change the conditions.