That, I concede, is far too neat an ending to this story. If performing and partitioning and projecting are all techniques of avoiding the Shadow Lands, then neither Buddhist detachment nor Freudian integration of the unconscious is enough to help us confront that which we have been avoiding. Our crises are material and profoundly collective, and so, ultimately, we will be able to bear unbearable realities only if we also work to change them.

XREF: Connects to themes of collective versus individual coping, echoing literature on how systemic problems resist purely psychological solutions.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 1072