Richard Dean Rosen

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    It’s apparent that we can’t proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego’s condition. Let’s call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.
    Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)

    If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
    —Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)

    Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
    —Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)

    The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self- fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.
    —Richard Dean Rosen (b. 1949)