Theoretical Issues in Psychology: Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology 1999 Conference

400 Pages·2001·42.74 MB·English

by  Ann Game (auth.)

THEORETICAL ISSUES IN
PSYCHOLOGY
Proceedings oft he International
Society for Theoretical Psychology
1999 Conference
Proceedings of the Biennial Conferences of the International Society
for Theoretical Psychology
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THEORETICAL ISSUES IN
PSYCHOLOGY
Proceedings of the International
Society for Theoretical Psychology
1999 Conference
edited by
John R. Morss
Dunedin, New Zealand
Niamh Stephenson
University of Western Sydney
Hans van Rappard
Free University, Amsterdam
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC
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International Society for Theoretical Psychology. Conference (8th: 1999 : Sydney, Australia)
Theoretical issues in psychology: proceedings of the International Society for
Theoretical Psychology 1999 conference / edited by John R. Morss, Niamh Stephenson,
Hans van Rappard.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4419-4890-8 ISBN 978-1-4757-6817-6 (eBook)
DOl 10.1007/978-1-4757-6817-6
I. Psychology-Congresses. I. Morss, John R. II. Stephenson, Niahm. III. Rappard,
Hans V. IV. Title.
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CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS ix
PREFACE xiii
I EMBODIED EXPERIENCE
Creative Ways of Being
Ann Game .................................................... 3
And The Subject Was Made Flesh: The aesthetic and corporate
dimensions of psychology's body
Henderikus J. Starn .............................................. 13
Plugged In: Psychology, technology and popular culture
Betty M. Bayer ................................................. 23
Technologies of Trans-Sexing: Discursive tension and resistance within
psycho-medical and transgendered theorising of transsexual bodies
Katrina Roen ................................................... 35
II SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROCESSES
Human Experience and the Enigma of Culture: Toward an enactive
account of cultural practice
Cor Baerveldt, Theo Verheggen, and Paul Voesterrnans ................ 49
From Shared Representations to Consensually Coordinated Actions:
Toward an intrinsically social psychology
Theo Verheggen and Cor Baerveldt ................................. 59
Cultural Psychology meets Evolutionary Psychology: Toward a new role
for biology in the study of culture and experience
Paul Voesterrnans and Cor Baerveldt ................................ 69
VI
The Tajfel Effect
Steven D. Brown and Peter Lunt 83
Discourse Analysis and Structural Supervision
Amd Hofmeister ................................................ 95
Forming Cultures Through Virtual Social Communities
Claudia Orthmann and Lars Nacke ................................ 105
III PERCEPTION, COGNITION AND REASONING
Points of View and The Visual Arts: James Turrell, Antonio Damasio
and the no-point-of-view phenomenon
Cianin Benson ................................................. 119
Beyond Representationalism: A dynamical approach transcending
symbolism in cognitive psychology
Donald L. Rowe ............................................... 131
The Dialectic of Critique, Theory and Method in Developing Feminist
Research on Inference
Rachel Joffe Fa1magne .......................................... 145
Getting Rid of the Homunculus: A direct realist approach
Terence McMullen ............................................. 159
IV SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND
METATHEORETICAL ISSUES
Logical Positivism and Gergen's Social Constructionism: No radical
disjunction in twentieth century psychological metatheory
Fiona J. Hibberd ............................................... 171
Wittgenstein and Social Constructionism: Methods of "social poetics"
or "knots in our thinking"?
Gavin B. Sullivan .............................................. 181
vii
Epistemological Framings of Mysticism: Implications for contemporary
western psychology
Lee Spark Jones ...................................._ . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Idealization in Science: A methodological reflection
Christopher Peet ............................................... 207
Stratification in Explanation
Hans van Rappard ............................................. 219
The Withering of Theory in Mainstream Social Psychology Journals:
Whither our next theoretical turn?
Ian Lubek, Mark Ferris, Angela Febbraro, Natasha Bauer, Brian Ross,
Heather Thoms-Chesley, Sue Edmonds, and Michael Andrews .......... 227
V SUBJECTIVITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Being cliched: Women's talk and feminine subjectivities
Niamh Stephenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 241
Individual Responsibility and Society: A subject science approach
Ute Osterkamp ................................................ 251
Models of the Life-Span for an Ageing Society
Rosemary Leonard and Ailsa Burns ............................... 265
Psychological Theorising in Transdisciplinary Perspective
Wolfgang Maiers .............................................. 275
Reintegrating Sense into Subjectification
Martin Hildebrand-Nilshon, Johanna Motzkau, and Dimitris Papadopoulos.. 289
From Law to Lifestyle: "Developmental" change in the Risk Society
John R. Morss ................................................ 301
Subjectivity and Subjectioning: Between determination and
self-government
Lars Nacke and Eri Park ........ ................................ 313
viii
VI THERAPY AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Finding a Place to Stand: Reflections on discourse and intertextuality
in counselling practice
David Pare ................................................... 327
The Influence of Psychotherapeutic Practices on a Hermeneutics of
Discourse
Angelina Baydala .............................................. 341
A Problem Aired: Radio therapeutic discourse and modes of subjection
Ian Hodges ................................................... 351
Psychology in the Twenty-First Century: Closing the gap between
science and the symbol
Agnes Petocz .................................................. 367
The Dynamic Unconscious Revisited: The role of motivation, affect,
embodiment and intersubjectivity in catching ourselves unawares
Doris McIlwain ............................................... 379
Symbolism of the Tower as Abjection
Inna Semetsky ................................................. 393
INDEX ...................................................... 409
CONTRIBUTORS
Michael Andrews Psychology Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
NIG 2WI, Canada
Cor Baerveldt NCPG, Department of Cultural Psychology, University of
Nijmegen, PO Box 9104,6500 HE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
[email protected]
Natasha Bauer Department of Psychology, York University, North York, ON M3J
IP3, Canada
Angelina Baydala Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, 2500
University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N IN4, Canada
[email protected]
Betty Bayer Department of Psychology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York 14456-3397, USA
Ciaran Benson Department of Psychology, University College, Belfield, Dublin 4,
Ireland
Steven D. Brown Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University,
Leics, LEI 1 3TU, UK [email protected]
Ailsa Burns Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, NSW 2109,
Australia
Sue Edmonds Psychology Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N 1G
2Wl, Canada
Rachel Joffe Falmagne Department of Psychology, Clark University, 950 Main
Street, Worcester, MA 01610-1477, USA [email protected]
Angela Febbraro Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo, ON, N2L, Canada
Mark Ferris Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada