THE DISAPPEARANCE OF PSYCHOLOGISATION?

The term psychologisation refers to psychology‘s variegated imprints on late mod-ern Western society. In this paper, we argue that over the last few decades, psycho-logisation has become such a pervasive phenomenon that it is almost no longer possible to speak of psychologisation as something distinct from other systems of meaning that can be subjected to critique. We draw on the French contemporary author Michel Houellebecq‘s novel Whatever that examines the personal conse-quences of living under an individualised, psychological regime. To be a human be-ing today is first and foremost to be a psychological being. A comparison of several influential critics of therapeutic culture leads to a seemingly recurring theme— the loss of alternatives— which now seems to have become a reality. Psychologisation has, therefore, disappeared in the sense that is has evolved into a monotheistic on-tology of late modernity.