ABSTRACT
A culture of uncare has gained ascendency in the period of globalisation since the mid-1980s. It has been extensively studied by social and psychosocial scientists, with each scholar naming it in turn the narcissistic, perverse, consumerist, extractive, entitled, arrogant, psychopathic, instrumental, and manically triumphant, culture. Awareness of the uncaring side of humanity has led to a recognition of the importance of there being structures in place to contain and limit uncare, hate, and sadism. A framework of care is such a structure. It does two things: it keeps destructive uncaring social behaviours in check and it actively supports caring social behaviours. The chapter argues that the culture of uncare boosts self idealisation is informed by psychoanalytic work on idealisation of the self. Self-idealisation through omnipotent identification with the idealised other is central to the phantasy that the earth is an idealised breast of endless provision.
