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 Previous Volumes Baker, W.J., Hyland, M.E., van Rappard, H.J., & Staats, A.W. (Eds.). (1987). Current issues in theoretical psychology. Amsterdam: North HollandlElsevier. ISBN: 0-444-70120-6. Baker, W.J., Mos, L.P., van Rappard, H.J., & Starn, H.J. (Eds.). (1988). Recent trends in theoretical psychology. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 0-387-96757-5; 3-540-96757-5. Baker, W.J., Hyland, M.E., van Hezewijk, R., & Terwee, S. (Eds.). (1990). Recent trends in theoretical psychology. Vol. II New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 0-387-97311-7; 3-540-97311-7. Starn, H.J., Mos, L.J., Thorngate, W., & Kaplan, B. (Eds.). (1993). Recent trends in theoretical psychology. Vol. III New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 0-387-97963-8; 3-540-97963-8. 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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. BF20 .164 2001 15 0---dc2 1 2001022506 Copyright © 2001 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photo copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Printed on aCid-free paper. The Publisher offers discounts on this book for course use and bulk purchases. For further information, send email to<[email protected]> . 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
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