Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity [electronic resource] /
Vos, Jan De.author.
Jan De Vos's second book on psychologization argues that psychology IS psychologization, a phenomenon traced back from Late-Modernity to the Enlightenment. Engaging with seminal thinkers such La Mettrie, Husserl, Lasch and Agamben, the book teases out the limits of psychoanalysis as a critical tool.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Psychology and its doublesChapter 1 Psychology, a post-Cartesian discipline. La Mettrie and the perverse core of the psy-sciences Chapter 2 From psychologism to psychologization. Edmund Husserl's life-world revisitedChapter 3 Therapeutic culture and its discontents. Christopher Lasch's critique on post-war psychologizationChapter 4 Psycho-politics. Giorgi Agamben homo sacer as the homo psychologicusChapter 5 Psychoanalysis and its doubles. Towards a hauntology of psychologizationEpilogue: Towards a non-psychology.
Jan De Vos's second book on psychologization argues that psychology IS psychologization, a phenomenon traced back from Late-Modernity to the Enlightenment. Engaging with seminal thinkers such La Mettrie, Husserl, Lasch and Agamben, the book teases out the limits of psychoanalysis as a critical tool.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Consciousness.
Psychology
Intellectual life-History.
Philosophy (General).
Philosophy of mind.
Social Theory.
Personality and Social Psychology.
History of Psychology.
Intellectual Studies.
General Psychology.
Philosophy of Mind.