“Good individualism”? Psychology, ethics, and neoliberalism in postsocialist Russia

摘要: Psychologists working in Russia's cities have found it both desirable and profitable to offer “psychological education” the children of elite. I examine two characterizations this work—as a form neoliberal subjectivation as post-Soviet project focused on progressive sociopolitical reform. Exploring tensions between them illuminates historical specificity self-work Russia, its relation commerce biopolitics, political ambiguity. conclude that studies governmentality attend an ethical practice social history can effectively render capitalist complicity ordinary ethics same frame.