ABSTRACT
Stupidity is not lack of education; it is not the opposite of cleverness; being too clever by half is a sure sign of stupidity. It is a systemic condition brought about by an invasive corporate technostructure which undermines freedom of thought and short-circuits spaces of learning. Like other practices, psychotherapy now increasingly operates within the confines of the corporate technostructure. The real obstacle to human flourishing is not selfishness, the bete noire of all pious narratives, but stupidity: The ancient philosophers taught that the main source of misfortune was something very different. Psychotherapists can be instrumental in rebuilding an anamnesic circuit. A similar operation to the substitution of individuation with integration has taken place in contemporary psychotherapy with the replacement of alienation with inauthenticity.
