%0 Journal Article
%T The work of happiness: A response to De La Fabi¨¢n and Stecher (2017)
%A Sam Binkley
%J Theory & Psychology
%@ 1461-7447
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0959354318761210
%X Following is a critical response to De La Fabi¨¢n and Stecher (2017). The authors contend that my book, Happiness as Enterprise (2014), is flawed in its attribution of the practice of positive psychology to a principally Calvinist paradigm of labor characterized by a deferred gratification¡ªan error that ignores the ultimately neoliberal attributes of this phenomenon. I respond that, while this may be true, it is a contradiction that positive psychology itself grapples with, and it is also a methodologically necessary step if one is to avoid a determinist account of the practice of positive psychology
%K Foucault
%K labor
%K neoliberalism
%K positive psychology
%K self help
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959354318761210