Jan De Vos
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan De Vos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | De Vos |
| SIGNATURE | DE VOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9659-504X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Una crítica psicoanalítica de la psicodigitalización de la crisis del Covid-19
Vino el virus covid-19, la cuarentena y el aislamiento forzado, y no tardó mucho en que los expertos psi llegaran con sus análisis y sus recomendaciones. Este ensayo principalmente reclama que, para que la pandemia ofrezca una oportunidad de hacer las cosas de otra manera, es necesario pensar una crítica psicoanalítica rigurosa no solo de la psicologización, sino también de la digitalización (la traslación de lo subjetivo y lo intersubjetivo a la…
Psicología y crítica
Cómo conectar la psicología con el pensamiento crítico? En este ensayo lohago por introducir dos términos más. Los dos términos ambos refieren precisamente a la crítica de la psicología misma. El primero es la crítica de la psicología desde el psicoanálisis y el segundo es la crítica de la psicología desde una agenda derechista y conservadora. Partiendo de este último, involucro a la obra de Ayn Rand (1905-1982), novelista y filósofa de culto, cu…
Deneurologizing Education? From Psychologisation to Neurologisation and Back
Which materialism? Questioning the matrix of psychology, neurology, psychoanalysis, and ideology critique
Juxtaposing the materialistic claims of the neurological turn in the psy-sciences in conjunction with the seemingly opposed virtual turn in society more broadly, this article explores the quadruple matrix of psychology/psychoanalysis/neurology/ideology critique. Assuming the challenge of materialism (“ il faut absolutement être materialiste”), the various vicissitudes to which the components of the matrix are subjected to as they become trapped w…
La memoria interrogada
The subject of the neuropsy-sciences stripped bare by her bachelors, even
In this paper I question whether the plea for depathologisation and the regaining of our expropriated subjectivity from its psy and neuro-colonization is, in fact, not itself enmeshed with the notion of some real core of the human being, and thus amenable to some or another Academic discipline and praxis. Critics of mainstream (neuro)psychology could unwittingly, then, join the strong but unacknowledged undercurrent in today’s neuropsy-discourses…
Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation
Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms. Psychologists deeply influence our society, and psychological-discourse has invaded companies, advertising, culture, politics, and even our social and family life. Moreover, psychologisation has become a global process, applied to situations such as torture, reality TV and famine. This book analyses this ‘overflow of psycholog…
The deadlock of Husserl’s life-world
Edmund Husserl’s seminal work The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy deals extensively with psychology. He even titled his Prague lecture of November 1935—which served as the basis of the book— The Crisis of European Sciences and Psychology. Husserl’s work is undoubtedly one of the most important critical assessments of psychology. Husserl criticized not only psychology’s m…
From La Mettrie’s voluptuous machine man to the perverse core of psychology
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709—1751) solved the problem of Cartesian dualism by denying the res cogitans any substance as such. He thus provided science with a basic paradigm which is still respected today. For La Mettrie, all aspects of the soul have to be considered as aspects of the res extensa: man is a machine. However, the emptying of the res cogito is not without a remainder. A zero level of subjectivity is left behind. This paper argue…
The psychologization of humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid's psycho-therapeutic turn in the 1990s was mirrored by the increasing emotionalization and subjectivation of fund-raising campaigns. In order to grasp the depth of this interconnectedness, this article argues that in both cases what we see is the post-Fordist production paradigm at work; namely, as Hardt and Negri put it, the direct production of subjectivity and social relations. To explore this, the therapeutic and mental healt…
Psychologization or the discontents of psychoanalysis
Depsychologizing Torture
It was only in 2006 that the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association prohibited their members from direct participation in intelligence interrogations in U.S. detention facilities such as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. It took the American Psychological Association, however, still two more years to tell their psychologists not to participate in the same type of interrogations. This article asks why psychology was the {\\…
Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Lasch’s bestseller The Culture of Narcissism had, beyond doubt, a significant impact—it was even read in the White House. Today it is not only still frequently taught and referenced, there are also still empirical studies conducted which try to verify Lasch’s assertion of the preponderance of the narcissistic personality. This paper re-reads the book as a critique of psychologization processes, and this allows us to discern, besides t…
From Milgram to Zimbardo
Milgram's series of obedience experiments and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment are probably the two best-known psychological studies. As such, they can be understood as central to the broad process of psychologization in the postwar era. This article will consider the extent to which this process of psychologization can be understood as a simple overflow from the discipline of psychology to wider society or whether, in fact, this process is …
On Cerebral Celebrity and Reality TV
The philosopher Daniel Dennett developed a theory of consciousness in which he replaces the so-called Cartesian theater with conceptions such as "fame in the brain" and "cerebral celebrity." The paradox of this is that Dennett unwittingly reintroduces the metaphors of the stage and the screen. The use of this trope is pursued in this essay in order to juxtapose Dennett's theory with reality TV and celebrity culture. This will allow us to sketch o…
Psychologization
La rebelion de los indios y la paz de los espanoles
Chiapas decimonónico
bibliografía comentada de 82 títulos sobre el periodo 1821-1920, precedida de comentarios generales sobre la historiografía de la región
Deneurologizing Education? From Psychologisation to Neurologisation and Back
The psychologization of humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid's psycho-therapeutic turn in the 1990s was mirrored by the increasing emotionalization and subjectivation of fund-raising campaigns. In order to grasp the depth of this interconnectedness, this article argues that in both cases what we see is the post-Fordist production paradigm at work; namely, as Hardt and Negri put it, the direct production of subjectivity and social relations. To explore this, the therapeutic and mental healt…
Psychologization
Psychologization or the discontents of psychoanalysis
Depsychologizing Torture
It was only in 2006 that the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association prohibited their members from direct participation in intelligence interrogations in U.S. detention facilities such as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. It took the American Psychological Association, however, still two more years to tell their psychologists not to participate in the same type of interrogations. This article asks why psychology was the {\\…
From Milgram to Zimbardo
Milgram's series of obedience experiments and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment are probably the two best-known psychological studies. As such, they can be understood as central to the broad process of psychologization in the postwar era. This article will consider the extent to which this process of psychologization can be understood as a simple overflow from the discipline of psychology to wider society or whether, in fact, this process is …
On Cerebral Celebrity and Reality TV
The philosopher Daniel Dennett developed a theory of consciousness in which he replaces the so-called Cartesian theater with conceptions such as "fame in the brain" and "cerebral celebrity." The paradox of this is that Dennett unwittingly reintroduces the metaphors of the stage and the screen. The use of this trope is pursued in this essay in order to juxtapose Dennett's theory with reality TV and celebrity culture. This will allow us to sketch o…
Chiapas decimonónico
bibliografía comentada de 82 títulos sobre el periodo 1821-1920, precedida de comentarios generales sobre la historiografía de la región
La rebelion de los indios y la paz de los espanoles
Psychologization
On Cerebral Celebrity and Reality TV
The philosopher Daniel Dennett developed a theory of consciousness in which he replaces the so-called Cartesian theater with conceptions such as "fame in the brain" and "cerebral celebrity." The paradox of this is that Dennett unwittingly reintroduces the metaphors of the stage and the screen. The use of this trope is pursued in this essay in order to juxtapose Dennett's theory with reality TV and celebrity culture. This will allow us to sketch o…
Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Lasch’s bestseller The Culture of Narcissism had, beyond doubt, a significant impact—it was even read in the White House. Today it is not only still frequently taught and referenced, there are also still empirical studies conducted which try to verify Lasch’s assertion of the preponderance of the narcissistic personality. This paper re-reads the book as a critique of psychologization processes, and this allows us to discern, besides t…
From Milgram to Zimbardo
Milgram's series of obedience experiments and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment are probably the two best-known psychological studies. As such, they can be understood as central to the broad process of psychologization in the postwar era. This article will consider the extent to which this process of psychologization can be understood as a simple overflow from the discipline of psychology to wider society or whether, in fact, this process is …
From La Mettrie’s voluptuous machine man to the perverse core of psychology
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709—1751) solved the problem of Cartesian dualism by denying the res cogitans any substance as such. He thus provided science with a basic paradigm which is still respected today. For La Mettrie, all aspects of the soul have to be considered as aspects of the res extensa: man is a machine. However, the emptying of the res cogito is not without a remainder. A zero level of subjectivity is left behind. This paper argue…
The psychologization of humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid's psycho-therapeutic turn in the 1990s was mirrored by the increasing emotionalization and subjectivation of fund-raising campaigns. In order to grasp the depth of this interconnectedness, this article argues that in both cases what we see is the post-Fordist production paradigm at work; namely, as Hardt and Negri put it, the direct production of subjectivity and social relations. To explore this, the therapeutic and mental healt…
Psychologization or the discontents of psychoanalysis
Depsychologizing Torture
It was only in 2006 that the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association prohibited their members from direct participation in intelligence interrogations in U.S. detention facilities such as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. It took the American Psychological Association, however, still two more years to tell their psychologists not to participate in the same type of interrogations. This article asks why psychology was the {\\…
Psychologisation in Times of Globalisation
Today more than ever, our understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us is described in psychological terms. Psychologists deeply influence our society, and psychological-discourse has invaded companies, advertising, culture, politics, and even our social and family life. Moreover, psychologisation has become a global process, applied to situations such as torture, reality TV and famine. This book analyses this ‘overflow of psycholog…
The deadlock of Husserl’s life-world
Edmund Husserl’s seminal work The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy deals extensively with psychology. He even titled his Prague lecture of November 1935—which served as the basis of the book— The Crisis of European Sciences and Psychology. Husserl’s work is undoubtedly one of the most important critical assessments of psychology. Husserl criticized not only psychology’s m…
The subject of the neuropsy-sciences stripped bare by her bachelors, even
In this paper I question whether the plea for depathologisation and the regaining of our expropriated subjectivity from its psy and neuro-colonization is, in fact, not itself enmeshed with the notion of some real core of the human being, and thus amenable to some or another Academic discipline and praxis. Critics of mainstream (neuro)psychology could unwittingly, then, join the strong but unacknowledged undercurrent in today’s neuropsy-discourses…
Which materialism? Questioning the matrix of psychology, neurology, psychoanalysis, and ideology critique
Juxtaposing the materialistic claims of the neurological turn in the psy-sciences in conjunction with the seemingly opposed virtual turn in society more broadly, this article explores the quadruple matrix of psychology/psychoanalysis/neurology/ideology critique. Assuming the challenge of materialism (“ il faut absolutement être materialiste”), the various vicissitudes to which the components of the matrix are subjected to as they become trapped w…
La memoria interrogada
Deneurologizing Education? From Psychologisation to Neurologisation and Back
Psicología y crítica
Cómo conectar la psicología con el pensamiento crítico? En este ensayo lohago por introducir dos términos más. Los dos términos ambos refieren precisamente a la crítica de la psicología misma. El primero es la crítica de la psicología desde el psicoanálisis y el segundo es la crítica de la psicología desde una agenda derechista y conservadora. Partiendo de este último, involucro a la obra de Ayn Rand (1905-1982), novelista y filósofa de culto, cu…
Una crítica psicoanalítica de la psicodigitalización de la crisis del Covid-19
Vino el virus covid-19, la cuarentena y el aislamiento forzado, y no tardó mucho en que los expertos psi llegaran con sus análisis y sus recomendaciones. Este ensayo principalmente reclama que, para que la pandemia ofrezca una oportunidad de hacer las cosas de otra manera, es necesario pensar una crítica psicoanalítica rigurosa no solo de la psicologización, sino también de la digitalización (la traslación de lo subjetivo y lo intersubjetivo a la…
Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Subjectivity (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)