Psychology and The Art of Living  

Oleh:

Brown, Steven D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Psychology vol. 11 no. 2 (Apr. 2001), page 171–192.
Topik: aesthetics; discourse; Foucault; non-discursive; social constructionism
Fulltext: 171TP112.pdf (99.84KB)

Isi artikel

A weakness of contemporary social constructionist work is its overarching concern with discourse at the expense of a thoroughgoing analysis of non-discursive phenomena. Alternative analytics such as materiality, embodiment or power engender their own problems. Using the example of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) discussed by Kroll - Smith and Floyd (1997), this paper works through a number of approaches that may redress this lack of concern for the non - discursive. Drawing variously on Foucault, Heidegger and Deleuze, these approaches call for a renewed engagement with the aesthetic as a means of understanding the concrete work of ordering and stylizing the world in which persons engage. That is, an 'art of living'. Issues of composition, truth, performance and expression are entailed. This results in an account of the intertwining of the discursive and the non - discursive, and an exploration of the possibilities such a conception offers for social constructionist psychology.

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