ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a variety of promising and intriguing proposals bearing on the decolonization of the life world. The decolonization of the life world will depend on modifications of early socialization to promote the formation of personality structures characterized by adequate self-other differentiation and de-idealization. Another approach to decolonization at the personal level involves the recovery of the body. Decolonization of the cultural sphere will depend in large part on delinking cultural activity from the marketing of commodities. Rather than despair over human shortsightedness, however, one must gather their anger and focus their individual capacities and collective energies on the decolonization of the life world and the construction of a humane social order. From the perspective of the critical psychologist, the problem could be stated as follows: The modernization of corporate capitalist societies generates a continuous ideological structuring of cultural processes, social institutions and socialization practices.
