商品簡介
"Pyschologization," defined as the entrance of psychological vocabulary and explanatory schemes into fields that are not traditional theoretical and practical terrains of psychology, has globally spread into almost every societal field, including companies, advertising, culture, politics, and our social and family lives, argues De Vos (philosophy and moral sciences, Ghent U., Belgium), whose critique of psychologization leads him to a denunciation of psychology itself as obsolete in both praxis and theory. He presents a three-fold argument, suggesting that the emergence of psychology inevitably and decisively alters the coordinates of subjectivity, that thus modern subjectivity becomes both psychological and psychologized, and that this double figure of psychology and psychologization permeates and structures the fields of modern science, modern culture, and modern politics. Touching upon such topics as the involvement of psychologists in torture practices at the American detention centers at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, the proliferation of "psychotainment" (reality TV, celebrity culture, and other forms of psychologized entertainment), and psychologization in humanitarian aid and other forms of contemporary biopolitics as he makes his critique, he concludes by bringing in psychoanalysis as a means to move beyond psychologization. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jan De Vos is a researcher at the faculty of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium.
