This is a chapter from the book: Psychology of the Private Individual Translated from Die Psychologie des bürgerlichen Individuums, Gegenstandpunkt Verlag, Munich Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness Psychology: Introduction Part I. The moral individual — How does an abstract free will work? Part II. How the bourgeois individual proves his worth in his home, capitalist society Part III. From failure to self-destruction — The realm of psychology © GegenStandpunkt 2003–2009