Neoliberalizmin Acılarını New Age Maneviyatı ile Dindirmek

Year 2023, Issue: 17 - World of the Pain / Pain of the World, 1 - 28, 23.05.2023

Feyza Toprak

https://doi.org/10.47124/viraverita.1238970

Cited By: 1

Abstract

New Age inanışlar ile neoliberalizmin yükselişinin bir bağlantısı vardır. Neoliberal birey kolektiviteden uzak bir yalnızlık ortamında bir girişimci gibi kendine özgün yeni bir benlik inşa eder. Bu makale neoliberal öznenin özgün benliğini ve gerçekliğini yaratmaya zorlandığı bir sosyal yapı içerisinde yöneldiği öznel bir inanç sistemini konu almaktadır. Makalenin temel argümanı neoliberal özenin acılarını dindirmeye yönelik pek çok inanç ve uygulama sunan New Age’in geç kapitalizmin bir ürünü olduğu üzerinedir. Bu argüman, önce moderniteden postmoderniteye geçişte öznelliğin dönüşümü konusuna; daha sonra postmodernitenin ekonomik altyapısını oluşturan geç kapitalizmde kültürün depolitizasyonu meselesine; akabinde bu depolitize olmuş kültürün içinde gelişen New Age eğilimlerin iyileştirici vaadinin arka planına; son olarak New Age’in içinde konumlandığı yeni paradigma olan Kuantum mistisizmi ve bunun küresel anlamadaki popülerliğinin ardında yatan psikanalitik kökenlere değinilerek geliştirilmektedir.

Keywords

Kelimeler: Neoliberal özne, girişimci özne, geç kapitalizm, New Age maneviyatı, Kuantum mistisizmi, Neoliberal subject, entrepreneurial subject, late capitalism, New Age spirituality, Quantum mysticism

Relieving the Pains of Neoliberalism with New Age Spirituality

Abstract

There is a connection between New Age beliefs and the rise of neoliberalism. The neoliberal individual builds a unique new self, like an entrepreneur, in an environment of aloneness away from collectivity. This article is about a subjective belief system in which the neoliberal subject is oriented in a social structure in which he is forced to create his original self and reality. The article's main argument is that the New Age, which offers many beliefs and practices to relieve the pain of neoliberal care, is a product of late capitalism. This argument first focuses on the transformation of subjectivity in the transition from modernity to postmodernity; to the question of the depoliticization of culture in late capitalism, which later formed the economic infrastructure of postmodernity, against the background of the healing promise of New Age trends that subsequently developed within this depoliticized culture; Finally, it is created by referring to Quantum mysticism, the new paradigm in which the New Age is located, and the psychoanalytic roots behind its popularity in global understanding.

Keywords

Neoliberal subject, entrepreneurial subject, late capitalism, New Age spirituality, Quantum mysticism

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