A Psychoanalytic Discursive Psychology

From Consciousness to Unconsciousness

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5965629
AutoresM Billig (0000-0002-0874-6419, Loughborough University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas17-24
Fecha de publicación2006-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445606059546
OpenAlexW2066883198
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25
Referencias citadas23

This article presents the position for a Psychoanalytic Discursive Psychology. This position combines two elements: an action-theory of language, derived from Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, and a revised Freudian concept of repression. According to Wittgenstein and most contemporary discursive psychologists, language is to be understood as action, rather than being assumed to be an outward expression of inner, unobservable cognitive processes. However, a critical approach demands more than an interactional analysis of language acts: it requires an analysis of ideology. Because what is left unsaid can be as ideologically important as what is said, there is a need to investigate socially reproduced unconsciousness. This means taking the notion of repression seriously. Whereas Freud imagined repression to be an inner psychic process, it can, by contrast, be seen as an activity that is constituted within everyday language. In this respect, language is fundamentally both expressive and repressive. The social and psychological significance of a Psychoanalytic Discursive Psychology are discussed

Consciousness · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Epistemology · Freudian slip · Ideology · Linguistics · Politics · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Unconsciousness · Unobservable · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology