Psychoanalyst Says Western Society Is Sick And Heading For Collapse
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:36 PM EST
Western society has behaved neurotically for the past twenty years and needs to be cured.
Professor Mark Stein draws this conclusion in a psychoanalysis of the financial crisis (via Steve Keen).
Symptoms of denial, omnipotence, triumphalism and over-activity were manifest in reaction to a series of crises—the fall of the Soviet Union, the Japanese and the Asian/LTCM crises—when the West did not respond with caution but instead by increasing risk:
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