@article{ehrenberg_individualisms_2014,
	title = {Individualisms and their {Discontents}: {The} {American} {Self} {Versus} the {French} {Institution}},
	volume = {21},
	issn = {1071-6076},
	url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/595135},
	abstract = {In France, a new discourse on psychological suffering has developed, one
that concerns social malaise and focuses on the values and norms of
autonomy. It can be summed up in the dual idea that 1) the individual is
overburdened with responsibilities and 2) social ties are weakening to the
point of creating a crisis in the sense of community and social
obligation. To place this French malaise in perspective, a comparison with
the United States is offered on two grounds: 1) whereas the autonomy ideal
tends to unify Americans, it divides the French, 2) whereas reference to
personality or ‘self’ is a familiar tradition in the United States,
Americans find the concept of institution more problematic. The present
article shows how problems of mental health, which concern moral and
social misfortune as well as illness, have been key issues in a
transformation of the Freudian theme of civilization and its discontents
into a concern with the pathology of contemporary democratic societies of
individualism.},
	number = {4},
	urldate = {2017-11-15},
	journal = {Philos. Psychiatr. Psychol.},
	author = {Ehrenberg, Alain and Sass, Louis},
	year = {2014},
	keywords = {Sep 20 import, duplicate},
	pages = {311--323}
}

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