Overview
- Draws upon a life time of research on intimate relationships and sexuality
- Argues that the diversity of cultural figurations of subjectivity should be Psychology’s main subject matter
- Presents a Slovakian perspective on political subjectivity of values
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This book takes an empirically grounded perspective on research in values, intimacy and sexuality, among other topics in psychology, to highlight the importance of searching for human subjectivity in its diversity, plurality and self-generativity. The author conducts an in-depth discussion on the methodological and epistemological issues enabling the study of subjectivity, and argues that in order to improve the contribution of psychology to human knowledge, a study of subjectivity must be at the forefront.This book presents a critical reflection of the author’s decades-long research within psychology to argue for a significant paradigm shift in the conception and execution of psychological research: a shift to “second order psychology”.
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gabriel Bianchi is a senior research fellow at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovakia.He is a social psychologist active in non-medical research on sexuality, intimacy, gender, reproduction and partnerhood within a broad context of values, democracy and politics. He has over 30 years of experience in international research teams, with a focus on applying qualitative, discursive and mixed research design. He is author of Sexuality: From Intimacy to Politics: With Focus on Slovakia in the Globalized World, 2020.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Figurations of Human Subjectivity
Book Subtitle: A Contribution to Second-Order Psychology
Authors: Gabriel Bianchi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19189-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19188-6Published: 17 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19191-6Published: 17 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19189-3Published: 16 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 146
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychology, general, Psychoanalysis, Personality and Social Psychology, Epistemology