Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity

by Jan De Vos

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230308466
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/20/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	189
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jan De Vos has a MD in psychology and holds a PhD in philosophy. He has worked as a clinical psychologist and is currently postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published widely on the topic of psychologization and is author of the book Psychologisation in times of Globalisation (2011).

Table of Contents

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 on 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