That interview strikes me as someone desperately trying to defend a poorly thought out Thesis. For example:
That's not at all an example of what she is contending, which is that choices are somehow illusionary. The woman in that example did make choices in her life, she just made choices based on other peoples desires rather than her own. That doesn't mean other choices couldn't have led to her happiness. All in all I think it's a pretty poorly thought out idea.
Quote: Salecl: No. I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: But I do have that power. I can decide for myself what I want, even if the thought stresses me out.
Salecl: Not at all. A friend, who's a psychologist, told me about a patient once: a woman who was well educated, had a good job, a house and a loving husband. "I did everything right in my life," said the woman. "But I'm still not happy." She never did what she herself wanted, but what she believed society expected from her.
That's not at all an example of what she is contending, which is that choices are somehow illusionary. The woman in that example did make choices in her life, she just made choices based on other peoples desires rather than her own. That doesn't mean other choices couldn't have led to her happiness. All in all I think it's a pretty poorly thought out idea.
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