September 4, 2010
the questionable value of happiness
Or, rather, is its perceived value the trump card to end all trump cards?
If the alternative to happiness is not, in the binary way, unhappiness; and if happiness has become so insidious, so hypnotic a single end for a good life, why have we wanted this strange narrowing of our intent? What have we lost, or forgotten, or ignored, or paid insufficient attention to, or protected ourselves from by wanting happiness? Happiness, it would seem, is the most plausible of our aims in life. But what psychoanalysis can chip in with here is that we are at our most defensive when we are at our most plausible
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“A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder.”
Is it really happiness that we should be seeking?