Psychology in The Field of Being : Merleau - Ponty, Ontology and Social Constructionism  

Oleh:

Burkitt, Ian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Psychology vol. 13 no. 3 (Jun. 2003), page 319–338.
Topik: ONTOLOGY; articulation; dimensionality; field of being; ontology; social constructionism; transformation; psychology
Fulltext: 319TP133.pdf (97.94KB)

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In this paper I take up the various ontological positions forwarded in social constructionism. While acknowledging its advances over other approaches to psychology, I nevertheless argue that the various ontological positions create confusion over the nature of human perception and the sensible realization of a world that does not rest wholly in language. Using the phenomenology of Merleau - Ponty, I argue for a more fundamental ontology that grasps the relation of the whole human being to the world. Essential to this are the metaphors of 'field of Being', 'dimensionality' and 'transformation'. The field of Being is realized in bodily perception of the sensible world, which is then articulated and transformed in linguistic expression. This has to be understood as a naturally embodied topography as well as a culturally and historically articulated and transformed space. I therefore present these metaphors as an extension of constructionism, seeing psychological phenomena as existing more broadly in a field of Being.

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