THE CONSEQUENCES OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY TO A CAPITALIST SOCIETY THAT DENIES SUFFERING

Resumen

This article will present the work of Byung-Chul Han (2017), The society of tiredness, as the main basis of criticism of positive psychology, presenting the points by which it acts to maintain the logic of capitalist production, no longer for a production economic or political order, but for the vigilance of individuals by themselves, so that they deny everything that is suffering, exalting all the positivities of life, making clear the results of this process, such as the lack of reflection and healing of negativity, which keeps in the minds of individuals in the way that HAN (2017) presents in their subconscious, which is treated by the different medicines, tranquilizers and coercion of themselves to feel better. Which are established as support for the positive individualistic mental process that is explained. It will be possible, with this work, to observe that even psychology supports and benefits the capitalist system with the individual culpability of the people.