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Getting somebody to deny a belief for no reason is a first step toward making her incapable of having a self because she becomes incapable of weaving a coherent web of belief and desire. It makes her irrational, in a quite precise sense: She is unable to give a reason for her belief that fits together with her other beliefs. She becomes irrational not in the sense that she has lost contact with reality but in the sense that she can no longer rationalize - no longer justify herself to herself.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
Despite the efforts of such writers as Fromm and Marcuse, Freudian moral psychology cannot be used to define social goals, goals for humanity as opposed to goals for individuals. There is no way to force Freud into a Platonic mold by treating him as a moral philosopher who supplies universal criteria for goodness or rightness or true happiness. His only utility lies in his ability to turn us away from the universal to the concrete, from the attempt to find necessary truths, ineliminable beliefs, to
the idiosyncratic contingencies of our individual pasts, to the blind im press all our behavings bear. He has provided us with a moral psychology which is compatible with Nietzsche's and Bloom's attempt to see the strong poet as the archetypal human being.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
Richard Rorty
40/ In other words, the brilliant AJR rhetorical maneuovre was to introduce a very plausible explanation for the (perceived) disappointing-ness of market-led development circa 2000. Colonialism was conscripted in the service of liberal development theories.
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