Activity

, 53

‘Advanced liberalism’

, 5

‘Aestheticization of life’

, 50–51, 87–88

Affirmation of agency

, 14

Agency

, 14

Animal Laborans

, 53

Anxiety

, 1, 4, 57, 61–63

‘Apparent voluntarism’

, 74

Artistic activity

, 55

Artists

, 54

Arts and Crafts movement

, 54

‘Assujetissement’

, 32

Authenticity

, 48

Autoethnography

, 37

Bandcamp

, 24–25

Basic capability

, 29–30

‘Basic trust’

, 27

Bildung

, 21–22

‘Blasé attitude’

, 44, 84–85

‘Bohème’

, 86

‘Bohemian ethos’

, 50–51

Bohemianism

, 85, 94

and social class

, 89–90

Bureaucratisation

, 44

Calvinism

, 68–69

Capability approach

, 29–30

Capitalism

, 5–6, 13–14, 44, 47, 63

ethics of

, 68–69

Capitalistic organisation

, 23–24

Careerism

, 47

CCIs

, 17–19

access to

, 18

music work, individualisation and precariousness in

, 20–26

neoliberalism in

, 16

precariousness in

, 23

at public policy level

, 17

social inequalities in

, 36–37

working features in

, 17

‘Central capabilities’

, 29–30

Chain referral method

, 36–37

Class

, 50

inequalities in cultural work

, 17–20

Classic double bind

, 43–44

‘Classical liberalism’

, 5

Cognitive dissonance

, 74–75

Competitive individualism

, 21–22

‘Connexionist world’

, 63

Consciousness

, 80–81

Contemporary bohemianism

, 51

Convergence

, 94

‘Coping skills’

, 67

Coping strategies

, 1, 3, 23, 39, 67, 75, 90

to bear daily life under neoliberalism

, 95–98

delusion of grandeur, fantasy, feelings of omnipotence and hope

, 81

mandatory networking, culture of hedonism and

, 79–81

personal fantasies about relationships

, 75–78

rationalisation, intellectualisation and displacement

, 81–83

texts as proxies of self, burden of work and

, 68–71

‘Cosmopolitization’

, 37

Craft work

, 54

Craftsmen

, 54

Creative economies

, 102

Creative work

, 2

Critical approach

, 64–65

Critical social science

, 64

Crowd psychology

, 27

Cruel Optimism (Berlant)

, 85

‘Cruel optimism’

, 81, 83–84, 95–97

Cultural industries

, 23–24

Cultural intermediaries

, 24–25

Cultural labour

, 2

Cultural production

, 25–26

Cultural studies

, 4

Cultural theory

, 1, 4, 101

Cultural work

, 1–2, 10–11

class and gender inequalities in

, 17–20

and gender inequalities

, 19–20

hope of finding reward in future

, 69–71

hope to challenge traditional lifestyles and gender norms

, 71–74

hopes and projection into cultural working lives

, 68–74

social class inequalities

, 18–19

texts as proxies of self, burden of work and coping strategies

, 68–71

Culture of hedonism

, 79–81

Culture of Narcissism, The (Lasch)

, 60

‘Culturisation of economy’

, 1–2

Cynical detachment

, 84–85

Dasein

, 62

DCMS

, 18

Defence mechanisms

, 1, 3, 39, 67, 75, 90

Bohemianism and social class

, 89–90

coping strategies and defence mechanisms to bear daily life under neoliberalism

, 95–98

cynical detachment and blasé attitudes

, 84–85

delusion of grandeur, fantasy, feelings of omnipotence and hope

, 81

misrecognition and denial strategy

, 83–84

personal fantasies about relationships

, 75–78

rationalisation, intellectualisation and displacement

, 81–83

seeing yourself

, 85–90

Delusion of grandeur

, 81

Denial strategy

, 83–84, 91

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM III)

, 60

Digital economies

, 102

Digitalisation

, 25–26, 94

Displacement

, 81–83

Divided self

, 26

‘Double bind’ concept

, 1, 43–45

Economic reforms

, 4–5

‘Economisation of culture’

, 1–2

‘Egalitarian and social democratic principles’

, 12–13

Ego psychology

, 27

Emotion

, 32

people beings with emotions influenced by structures

, 98–99

Emotional disorders

, 3

Enlightenment

, 57

Entrepreneurial actors

, 7

Entrepreneurial subjectivity

, 12

Entrepreneurialism

, 2, 94

Entrepreneurship

, 2

Ethics of capitalism

, 68–69

Ethnicity

, 3

Ethnomethodology

, 27

‘Etho-politics’

, 15

Experimental lifestyle

, 94

Facebook

, 24–25

‘Failed relationships’

, 76–77

Fall of Public Man, The (Sennett)

, 60

Fantasy

, 32–33, 81, 97

Fear

, 4, 61–62

‘Fear of psychologisation’

, 33

Feelings of omnipotence

, 81

‘Flexploitation’

, 13–14

Flourishing

, 43, 99–100

precariousness preventing and

, 93–94

theoretical framework for

, 26–31

Forced hedonism

, 97–98

Forced workaholism

, 70

Fordism

, 55

Foucauldian governmentality

, 15, 65

‘Fragmentation’

, 13–14

‘Free subjectivity’

, 85

Freedom

consciousness of

, 62

Fromm’s nature of

, 62–63

individual

, 65

precarious

, 47

Friends (American TV show)

, 75–76, 97

Garfinkel’s stratification model

, 27

Gender

cultural work and Gender inequalities

, 19–20

equality

, 47

hope to challenge traditional lifestyles and gender norms

, 71–74

Gentrification

, 89

Governmentality

, 15, 34, 63

Great British Class Survey

, 18–19

Health hazards

, 3

Hedonism, culture of

, 79–81

Hegelianism

, 44

Homo economicus

, 7, 11–12, 98–99

Homo Faber

, 53

Homophily of workers

, 90–91

Hope

, 74, 81, 95

to challenge traditional lifestyles and gender norms

, 71–74

of finding reward in future

, 69–71

‘Hope labour’

, 69–71, 95

Human capital

, 2

Human Condition (Arendt)

, 53

Human Development Approach

, 29–30

Identity

, 68–69

‘Imaginary contract’

, 56

Immaterial labour

, 8

‘Imposed self realisation’

, 47

Independent music

, 3–4

Individual recognition

, 58–59

Individualisation

, 5–6, 8–9, 21–22, 43–44, 71–72

anxiety

, 61–63

in CCIs

, 20–26

narcissism

, 59–61

from origins to current understandings

, 44–49

pathologies as consequences of individualisation

, 57–63

problems associated with process of

, 99–100

recognition

, 58–59

self-realisation through (creative) work

, 52–56

theories and social class

, 50–52

use of normative and critical approach

, 64–65

wide range of literature with common ground

, 63

Individualism

, 46

Individualization, precariousness preventing and

, 93–94

Informal interviews

, 39, 78

Inquiry and method

, 36–40

Institutional normativity

, 65

Intellectualisation

, 81–83, 96

Intermittent Workers’ movement

, 11

Intermittents du spectacle

, 11

‘Iron cage’ concept

, 44

Keynesian public policy

, 4–5

Kleinian ‘Object Relations’

, 31–32

Labour

, 53

Lacanian psychoanalytical concepts

, 31–32

Laissez-faire economic liberalism

, 4–5

Lasch’s theory

, 61

Liberalism

, 65

Life

aspects of

, 1

precariousness affects all aspects of

, 94–95

stylization and aestheticization of

, 50–51

Longitudinal inspired research

, 37

Macro-social recognition

, 58–59

Madame Bovary

, 76

‘Magical voluntarism’

, 81

Mandatory networking

, 79, 81, 97–98

Marxist-influenced critical social science

, 65

‘Masculinist creation’

, 19–20

Meadian social psychology

, 58

‘Meaningless relationships’

, 76–77

Mental disorders

, 3

Meritocracy

, 47

Micro-social recognition

, 58–59

Middle-class workers

, 52

Misrecognition

, 58–59, 83–84

Modernity

, 27–28, 44, 49, 57

Mont Pelerin Society

, 4–5

Moral economy

, 4

Moral philosophy

, 1, 4

Multi-sited fieldwork

, 37

Music

, 68

Music work in CCIs

, 20–26

Myspace

, 24–25

Narcissism

, 1, 4, 57, 59–61, 67

Narcissistic personality disorders

, 60

National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC)

, 18

‘Neoliberal culture’

, 58

Neoliberal entrepreneurial approach

, 25

Neoliberal entrepreneurialism

, 52

Neoliberal hegemony

, 12

Neoliberal policies

, 1–2

Neoliberal rationality

, 6–7

Neoliberalism

, 1, 4, 7, 37

coping strategies and defence mechanisms to bear daily life under

, 95–98

political goal of

, 6–7

precariousness, neoliberalism and lack of political mobilization

, 7–16

understanding of interplay between subjectivity, neoliberalism and precariousness

, 13–16

‘Network sociality’

, 10–11

Normative approach

, 64–65

NVivo 11 software

, 38–39

Objective well-being

, 99

‘Obsessive activity’

, 70

Omnipotence, feelings of

, 81

Ontological security

, 26–29, 93–94

‘Organized self realisation’

, 21–22

Pathologies of individualisation

, 43–44

as consequences of individualisation

, 57–63

Personal fantasies about relationships

, 75–78

Phobia

, 61–62

Picture of Dorian Gray, The (Wilde)

, 85

Political economy

of communication

, 1

of media

, 4

Political goal of neoliberalism

, 6–7

Political mobilisation

, 10–13

Precariat: The New Dangerous Class, The

, 9

‘Precarious freedom’

, 47

‘Precarious’

, 7–8

Precariousness

, 3, 7, 10, 93–94

affects all aspects of life

, 94–95

in CCIs

, 20–26

cope with

, 67–68

and political mobilisation

, 10–13

understanding of interplay between subjectivity, neoliberalism and precariousness

, 13–16

of work

, 71–72

Precarisation

, 8–10, 15–16

‘Precarity’

, 8, 52

Professional relationships

, 78

‘Projective city’

, 63

Psychoanalysis

, 1, 4, 33–34

Psychoanalytic subjectivity

, 33–34

‘Psychological bulwark’

, 85, 97

Psychological narrative

, 77

Psychological theories

, 4

Psychologisation

, 4

Psychology

, 4

psychology-based psychosocial studies

, 35

Psychosocial field

, 31–35

subjectivity

, 32–33

Psychosocial studies

, 34, 101

criticisms and risks related to influence of psychoanalysis in

, 33–34

difference between ‘traditional’ psychosocial studies and approach

, 35

Psychotherapeutic culture

, 34

Psychotherapy

, 33–34

Qualitative analysis

, 38–39

Qualitative data

, 36

Race

, 3

Radical democratic politics

, 10–11

Rational Action Theory

, 98

‘Rational anticipation’

, 94–95

Rationalisation

, 74–75, 81–83, 96

Rationality

, 7

Recognition

, 1, 57–59, 67

Reflexive modernisation

, 47

Relationships, personal fantasies about

, 75–78

Research

, 3–4

Romantic love

, 76

Romantic relationship

, 76–77

Saturation

, 38

Schizophrenia

, 43–44

Self-blaming

, 11–12, 15

‘Self-care’

, 7

Self-construction process

, 3, 53–54

Self-cultivation

, 21

Self-esteem

, 1, 4, 60, 67

Self-estrangement

, 44

Self-exploitation

, 1–2

Self-identity

, 44

Self-realisation

, 20–21, 47, 55–56, 68–69

self-realisation through (creative) work

, 52–56

Self-regulation

, 15

Semi-directed interviews

, 39, 78

‘Shields’

, 67–68

Singleness

, 76–77

Snowball sampling method

, 36–37

Social class

, 50–52

Bohemianism and

, 89–90

inequalities

, 18–19

Social constructions

, 43–44

Social discrimination

, 20

Social distinction

, 21–22

Social institutions

, 5, 43–46

Social interaction

, 48

Social models

, 14–15

Social organisation

, 47

Social psychology

, 74–75

Social structures

, 46

Social variables

, 3

Socialisation

, 46

Sociological fear of psychologisation

, 4

Sociology

, 1, 4, 27, 101

founders of

, 45

SoundCloud

, 24–25

State institutions

, 5

Stress

, 61–62

management

, 67

Stricto sensus

, 6–7

Subjective employment insecurity

, 13–14

Subjective well-being

, 99

Subjectivity

, 6–7, 11–12, 19–20, 32–33

understanding of interplay between subjectivity, neoliberalism and precariousness

, 13–16

Texts

, 21–24

as proxies of self

, 68–71

Traditional adulthood

, 94

Trans-disciplinary approach

, 4, 33, 35

‘Tumbleweed society’

, 14

‘Ultimate love’

, 76–77

Uncertainty

, 12

Vocational restlessness

, 13–14

Well-being, theoretical framework for

, 26–31

White Collar

, 54

Winnicottian object theory

, 27

Wittgensteinian philosophy

, 27

Women

forced to adopt entrepreneurial state

, 47

individualization and

, 47

subject to discrimination

, 19–20

Work

, 2, 53, 56, 75

burden and coping strategies

, 68–71

Workers

archetype of

, 55–56

homophily of

, 90–91

rights

, 94–95

Youtube

, 24–25