The Political Becomes Personal: Psychological Adulthood and the Society We Actually Live In by RJ Starr

A recorded lecture by RJ Starr introducing Psychological Adulthood, a formal construct within Psychological Architecture, the structural framework for the study of how mind, emotion, identity, and meaning interact to shape human experience. The lecture makes a precise claim: psychological adulthood is not chronological adulthood. One is conferred by time. The other is constructed through the integration of internal architecture, and most people never complete it. The lecture works through four structural dimensions of that achievement, including the integration of intellect and emotion, radical accountability as load-bearing structure, structural tolerance for ambiguity, and autonomy from the collective, before examining what the widespread absence of psychological adulthood produces at the societal level: polarization, institutional brittleness, and collective emotional contagion as structural outputs rather than political failures.

Full construct: https://profrjstarr.com/psychological-adulthood
Formal paper: https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27721.92006