When material needs are largely satisfied, writes Carl Rogers, as they tend to be for many people in this affluent society, individuals are turning to the psychological world, groping for a greater degree of authenticity and fulfillment. The clear distinction between material and psychic needs is already the mystification; it capitulates to the ideology of the affluent society which affirms the material structure is sound, conceding only that some psychic and spiritual values might be lacking. Exactly this distinction sets up authenticity and fulfillment as so many more commodities for the shopper. Rather it is the fissure itself which is the source of the ills—between work and free time, material structure and psychological world, producers and consumers.
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Carl Rogers was a 20th-century American psychologist. Carl Ransom Rogers was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy. Rogers is widely considered one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1956. Read more on Wikipedia →