What about me?
Subtitle: the struggle for identity in a market-based society
By: Paul Verhaeghe ; translated by Jane Hedley-Prôle
Contributors: Hedley-Prôle, Jane, translator
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781922070906; 9781922247377
Subjects: Individual differences; Failure (Psychology); Success; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Social change; Identity (Psychology)
Work titles: Identiteit
Description: According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today's pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses - even individuals are being made to think of themselves as one-person enterprises. Love is increasingly hard to find, and we struggle to lead meaningful lives.
Notes: "First published as Identiteit by De Bezige, Bij, Netherlands, 2012"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265).

Translated from the Dutch.
Table of contents: title: Identity; title: Ethics : from self-realisation to self-denial; title: The perfectible individual; title: The essence of identity; title: Intermezzo : society and disorders; title: Enron society; title: Identity : powerless perfectibility; title: The new disorders : rank and yank; title: The good life.