The Event of Psychopoetics: Imagination and the Rupture of Psychology (Concepts for Critical Psychology)

"The Event of Psychopoetics overviews and investigates the notion of psychopoetics, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and power relations in the context of everyday interaction and through certain modes of dialoguing and conversing. This transdisciplinary text takes the reader through the thought processes of Deleuze, Guattari, Agamben, Maffesoli, Foucault, Butler, Haraway, and Braidotti, among others, addressing debates that are integral to the critique of psychology and its devices of subjectivization and normalization. Garcia takes a unique approach by reflecting on how psychopoetics contrasts institutionalized dialogues, while constantly emphasizing the generative and transformative potency of social worlds effectuated in the impetuous play of poetics. The book combines the rigor of academic research with the creative display of ideas that open diverse, suggestive lines of reflection on everyday interlocution and its possibilities of reinvention, modes of social existence, and the relation between subjectivity and the designs of power. A truly unique reading experience, this book is ideal for students, instructors, and researchers in the fields of philosophy, social psychology and sociological thought, discourse studies, literary theory, and cultural analysis"-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Part I: The devices of psychology and their critique 1. The psychological complex and critical alternatives in psychology The problem of intervention in psychology Some divergent alternatives in psychological work Notes 2. The energy of poiesis Notes 3. The poetic dimension in psychological praxis Psychotherapy and socio-constructionism The schism of schizoanalysis Notes Part II: The event of psychopoetics 4. Language: order-word and minoritarian becoming Notes 5. Intuitive plot, affective reason, and instant thought Notes 6. Poetics of disorder, eccentricity, and transignification The notion of poiesis in ancient Greek philosophy Eccentricity and the deforming adventure of the senses Transignification and the inventive turn Notes Part III: Psychopoetics: writings of imagination and amusement 7. Las Meninas (by Witkin) or the unpredictable emergence of the powers of the soul I II Notes 8. The bottle of Beaujolais: a (not overly) critical discourse analysis Introduction Analysis Primer criterion: a discourse is realized in texts Analytical step number 1: express the object of study in written language; that is, describe it in words, transform it to text Analytical step number 2: explore the connotations of the text through a form of free association (best performed when accompanied) Second criterion: a discourse on objects Analytical step number 3: detail (define) systematically the objects that appear in the text Analytical step number 4: allude to the styles or forms of speaking (in turn) as objects of study or discourses Third criterion: a discourse contains subjects Analytical step number 5: identify the subjects present in the text Analytical step number 6: reconstruct (speculatively) what the subjects involved in the text would have to say in the context of rules presupposed by the text itself Fourth criterion: a discourse is a coherent system of meanings Analytical step number 7: identify the different versions or images of the social worlds that co-exist in the text Analytical step number 8: identify the implicit cultural rules that articulate the worlds appearing in the text and then speculate on how to best confront the text's own discourses or attend to possible objections to its terminology Fifth criterion: one discourse refers to other discourses Analytical steps numbers 9 and 10: identify the contrasts between the distinct forms of speech and the occasions in which they overlap or are superimposed Sixth criterion: a discourse is reflected in its own way of speaking Analytical step number 11: make comparisons with other texts and evaluate how these forms of speech are directed to distinct audiences Analytical step number 12: reflect upon and select the adequate terminology for naming or describing the discourses articulated in the text Discussion Seventh criterion: a discourse is historically-localized Analytical step number 13: study where, how and when the discourses in the text emerge Analytical step number 14: describe how the discourses present in the text operate by "naturalizing" their referents Eighth criterion: discourses sustain and/or subvert institutions Analytical step number 15: examine how implicit discourses reproduce and reinforce this or that institution Analytical step number 16: explore how the discourses present in the text attack or subvert one institution or another Ninth criterion: discourses reproduce power relations Analytical steps number 17 and 18: examine which people gain or benefit from the discourses present in the text and so desire to support and promote them; and which lose something, or could be harmed by those discourses, and so wish to discredit or dissolve them Tenth criterion: discourses have ideological effects Analytical steps 19 and 20: to show how these implicit discourses are linked to other discourses that sustain and vindicate power relations (or how they articulate with the possibility of resisting power), and how they reproduce or subvert dominant conceptions and the possibilities of change they provide Limits and Critiques Epilogue Notes 9. The New Voight-Kampff Test and detecting a replicating subjectivity Module A. Generalities Historical context and current situation. Basic concepts. Test subjects. Fundamental objective Module B. Diagnosis Identification and descriptive analysis of replicant subjective expression. Programming alterations. Reduction or absence of self-controls. Systemic malfunctioning Module C. Application General Warning Spatial, material, and organisational conditions for administering the Test Sections of the test Final assurance Perpetuity of the corporation Notes Annex 1. Photograph by Joel-Peter Witkin entitled "Las Meninas (Autorretrato según Velázquez)" (1987) Index __The Event of Psychopoetics__ overviews and investigates the notion of __psychopoetics__, a sociopsychological event that involves re-creative slips and that emerges under certain cultural conditions and power relations in the context of everyday interaction and through certain modes of dialoguing and conversing. A truly unique reading experience, this book is ideal for students, instructors, and researchers in the fields of philosophy, social psychology and sociological thought, discourse studies, literary theory, and cultural analysis.