The Death of the Soul

In her 1993 book New Maladies of the Soul philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva wrote about how the psychological ailments she found in her patients differed from those uncovered by Freud a hundred years previously.  In particular she noted "Today's men and women - who are stress-riden and eager to achieve, to spend money, have fun and die - dispense with the representation of their experience that we call psychic life... We have neither the time nor the space needed to create a soul for ourselves, and the mere hint of such activity seems frivolous and ill-advised."  Where Freud had found people with complex entanglements in their psyches, Kristeva discovers people who barely have any interior life at all: their inner worlds are impoverishied and nearly empty. 

Excerpt from http://www.philosophynow.org/issues/87/Marshall_McLuhan_on_the_Mobile_Phone