Dr Sascha Weigel talks to the well-known and experienced consultants Günther Mohr and Rolf Balling on the changed ideas of self-realisation. They present Andreas Reckwitz's theses and comment on the fact that the culture of the self and self-realisation has changed significantly in our society. The driving force behind this has been psychology, which has flowed into everyday life via patterns of psychologisation. The basic idea was certainly that the self not only comes to fruition through the fulfilment of duty and convention, but can only unfold its potential through liberation.

Contents discussed:

• Reckwitz, Andreas: The Society of Singularities. On the structural change of modernity, Frankfurt am Main 2019.

• Reckwitz, Andreas/Rosa, Hartmut: Late modernity in crisis. What does social theory achieve? Frankfurt am Main 2021.