Affiliation:
1. University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht
Abstract
Counseling practices are guided by an aspiration to alleviate suffering
and enhance well-being of clients. This entails a focus on minimizing
vulnerability to others and on preservation from injury and violation.
In the work of Judith Butler, too, there is a strong focus on the ethical
importance of alleviating suffering, more precisely suffering related
to oppression and social exclusion. Butler, however, also stresses the
ethical limitations of attempting to preserve ourselves from injury and
violation, in relation to her view that human beings are implicated and
intertwined in each other’s existence. An exploration of how this perspective
resonates in the domain of counseling suggests that the practice of
ethical counseling may benefit from rethinking the aim of counseling
in terms of “becoming human.”
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
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