Palgrave Macmillan | Discursive Psychology And Embodiment: Beyond Subject-Object Binaries (2020 EN)

Author: Sally Wiggins (Editor), Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal (Editor)
Full Title: Discursive Psychology And Embodiment: Beyond Subject-Object Binaries
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2020 edition (February 13, 2021)
Year: 2020
ISBN-13: 9783030537098 (978-3-030-53709-8), 9783030537081 (978-3-030-53708-1)
ISBN-10: 3030537099, 3030537080
Pages: 305
Language: English
Genre: Psychology
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True)
Quality: 10/10
Price: 117.69 €


For over thirty years, discursive psychology has offered a robust challenge to cognitivist approaches to psychology, demonstrating the relevance of discursive practices for understanding psychological topics and social interaction. Matters of embodiment – the visceral, sensory, physical aspects of psychology – have, however, so far received much less attention.

This book is the first text to address the theoretical and analytical challenges raised by bodies in interaction for discursive psychology. The book brings together international experts, each of which tackles a different topic area and interactional setting to examine embodiment as a social object. The authors consider the issue of subject-object relations and how ‘inner’ psychological subject-side states are constructed and enacted in relation to object-side states through embodied discursive practices. How do bodily processes become particular kinds of embodiment through and within social interaction? How are bodies psychologised as social objects?

Moving beyond dualisms of the subject/object that construct an ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ psychological state, the book pushes forward contemporary theory and analysis within discursive psychology. Discursive Psychology and Embodiment is therefore an essential resource for researchers across the social sciences working within discourse, social interaction, and the ‘turn to the body’.


Overview:
✓ Showcases latest developments in discursive psychological research on issues of embodiment
✓ Offers a thorough examination of the theory and empirical work in subject-object relations, emotions, affect and physicality
✓ Establishes a clear position on embodiment in relation to developments in the social sciences more broadly

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