Welfare State crisis, individualism, humanistic psychology, self-fulfillment, Abraham Harold Maslow, Carl Rogers, solidarity, collective identity
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The decline of the Welfare State and collective solidarity has led to a focus on individual happiness and self-fulfillment, driven by theories of humanistic psychology.
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A paradoxical weakening of the collective and solidarity institutions...
A Welfare State partly responsible for the disintegration of solidarity logics...and now in crisis
The 20th century, a period marked by the failure of the great ideologies
...which displaces the fulfillment of oneself into the field of the personal...
A movement of recentring on the individual
New orientations for individual development
...but whose benefits remain shared
The individual, a new paradigm of humanism
Personal fulfillment of the individual, new path for intersubjectivity?
A paradoxical weakening of the collective and solidarity institutions...
A Welfare State partly responsible for the disintegration of solidarity logics...and now in crisis
The 20th century, a period marked by the failure of the great ideologies
...which displaces the fulfillment of oneself into the field of the personal...
A movement of recentring on the individual
New orientations for individual development
...but whose benefits remain shared
The individual, a new paradigm of humanism
Personal fulfillment of the individual, new path for intersubjectivity?
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[...] A paradoxical weakening of the collective and institutions of solidarity . A. A Welfare State partly responsible for the disintegration of solidarity logics . and now in crisis If the'The Welfare State constituted in the aftermath of the Second World War a concept allowing to apprehend the reduction of social inequalities and to favor the search for happiness, its progressive reduction from the 1970s marked an important reorientation of the conception of individual and collective happiness. While access to health, retirement and unemployment insurance had seemed to constitute necessary prerequisites for self-fulfillment and aspirations, the reforms undertaken in Anglo-Saxon countries, in particular, have undermined this statist conception of happiness and individual security. [...]
[...] ?which displaces the fulfillment of oneself in the field of the personal . A. A movement of recentring on the individual Or l'the collapse of the Soviet bloc sounded the end of the polarization of the world according to political constructions, and in fact led to the erasure of ideologies in the construction of individual identities. In this context - and even before the collapse of ideologies - philosophical and psychological currents gradually emerged to propose alternatives to personal development. [...]
[...] ?but the benefits remain shared A. The individual, a new paradigm of humanism Or this valorization of the'The individual does not mean, for all that, a retreat into oneself and individualism, which are sometimes criticized in free-market and capitalist economic systems. If the second half of the 20th century was marked by the valorization of the individual and the value of beings, the psychological currents sharing a strong vision of the individual remain nonetheless centered on the community and the possible interactions between individuals. [...]
[...] Review of History, n° 97. - Levy Moreno J. (1965). Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, PUF. - Rogers C. (1963). The Therapeutic Relationship: The Bases of Its Efficacy. Bulletin of Psychology, No. 17. [...]
[...] Personal fulfillment of the individual, new way for intersubjectivity? This rThis evolution has allowed the individual to be placed at the center of their psychology, whereas previous approaches tended to want to make the subject conform to pre-established thought models. In other words, self-fulfillment means being able to express what is specific to one's individual identity as a free individual endowed with free will and the ability to make choices. In doing so, the culture of oneself and one's specificities encourages individuals to exchange and value mutual aid, no longer in the form of collective institutions based on the principle of solidarity. [...]
