783168071     

978316807X                        

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De Vos, Jan, 1967-

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Online-Ressource (202 p)

Englisch

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Psychology and Its Doubles; 1 Psychology, a Post-Cartesian Discipline: La Mettrie and the Perverse Core of the Psy-sciences; 2 From Psychologism to Psychologization: Edmund Husserl's Life-World Revisited; 3 Therapeutic Culture and Its Discontents: Christopher Lasch's Critique of Post-War Psychologization; 4 Psycho-Politics: Giorgi Agamben Homo Sacer as the Homo Psychologicus; 5 Psychoanalysis and Its Doubles: Towards a Hauntology of Psychologization; Epilogue: Towards a Non-Psychology; Notes; References; Index

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Print version: Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity

978-1-137-26922-5 ( : 58.4 (NL))

978-0-230-30846-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Social psychology ; Psychology ; Psychoanalysis

<p >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