R A Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 7975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R A Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | R A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5419-677X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Seeking reason and rebirth: Jungian archetypes, scientism, and a question about transhumanism
Attempts to make Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of archetypes scientifically credible tend to invoke biology and evolution theory. These convey faith in the power of science (scientism), taken here as a cultural metanarrative. The essay provides a critical appraisal of both biology-oriented and culture-oriented trends in Jungian studies, and steers the conceptualization of archetypes towards issues of embodied subjectivity and narrativity. Thematic pa…
Dialectics of Sign and Symbol and the Utterance of Archetype Theory
Debates surrounding Jung's archetype theory could be characterized as tacit attempts to contend with the concept's dual function as referring to something known to psychologists (sign) and standing for something that is fundamentally unknowable (symbol). This essay considers implications of the term "archetype," outlines and critiques some of the conundrums of categorization and scientific credibility posed by Jung's formulation of the theory, an…
Beyond Anthropomorphism
Cross purposes and crossed wires: A reply to
The article (Jones, 2022) on which Burr and King (2022) comment represents my theoretical work in the field of history and philosophy of psychology. Their commentary conveys certain misunderstanding of its nature and contains some inaccuracies. This reply clarifies the original article’s purposes and attributes the misunderstanding to differing agendas or motivations for comparing theories
Thinking in opposites: The psychologies of Carl Gustav Jung and George Kelly
The psychologies independently founded by Jung and by Kelly exemplify traditional approaches to personality and the self. Both assume a primacy of the private world and posit “opposites” as a fundamental feature of the personality structure, though they differ in their conceptions of this structure and the level of analysis at which opposites matter. The main dimensions for the present comparison of their theories include: the mode of thought of …
“There is nothing as practical as a good theory”: Theorising relationality in clinical practice
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Projective Anthropomorphism as a Dialogue with Ourselves
This paper introduces an original concept (projective anthropomorphism) towards exploring a psychological dimension that is irreducible to the forms of anthropomorphism investigated in both cognitive science and social robotics. Projective anthropomorphism is an unconscious bias towards anticipating humanlike characteristics in robots. An overview of the variety of ways in which projection has been conceptualised in psychology and psychoanalysis …
The snake in the mandala: Dialogical aspects of Jung’s ‘A study in the process of individuation’
Jung's study centres on the amplification of pictures painted by a woman patient and posits their sequence as evincing the initial stages of the individuation process. His text performs a dialogue with its audience whereby Jung persuades us of this truth, and also reveals Jung's dialogue with his patient and with his own ideas. The present paper revisits the clinical material first with a focus on the interaction between Jung and his patient. The…
Concerning the Apperception of Robot-Assisted Childcare
This essay looks askance at how robot-assisted childcare is constructed in the public domain of the Internet. Complex interactions of rhetorical manoeuvres, narratives and postnarrativity, and semiotic slippages may channel the apperception of this application of robotics. The prospect of robots in childcare roles is exceptionally contentious, for it connotes interference with the child-caregiver attachment bond. The industry’s response to psycho…
Dialogicality and culture of psychology in a study of individuation
Viewing psychology as a cultural activity associated with technologies of the self, and noting the cultural phenomenon of the Jungian movement internationally, this paper presents a reading of Jung’s ‘A Study in the Process of Individuation’ through the lens of dialogism. Jung’s study pivots on the interpretation of paintings by a middle-aged American woman, ‘Miss X’, whom he treated in 1928. The present paper critically examines dialogical aspec…
After postmodernism, technologism
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Archaic man meets a marvellous automaton: Posthumanism, social robots, archetypes
Posthumanism is associated with critical explorations of how new technologies are rewriting our understanding of what it means to be human and how they might alter human existence itself. Intersections with analytical psychology vary depending on which technologies are held in focus. Social robotics promises to populate everyday settings with entities that have populated the imagination for millennia. A legend of A Marvellous Automaton appears as…
What makes a robot ‘social
Rhetorical moves that construct humanoid robots as social agents disclose tensions at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and social robotics. The discourse of robotics often constructs robots that are like us (and therefore unlike dumb artefacts). In the discourse of STS, descriptions of how people assimilate robots into their activities are presented directly or indirectly against the backdrop of actor-network theory, which…
Towards dialogic epistemology: The Problem of the Text
This article considers epistemological implications of Bakhtin's dialogism. Bakhtin urged scholars in the human sciences to treat a text as having a voice of its own, to be attuned to its creativity and originality, and to resist conflating one's image of the author with the actual person who has produced the text. Importing his ideas into the social sciences creates a site of tensions at the disciplines' boundaries. Yet his characterisation of d…
Writerly dynamics and culturally situated authentic human existence in Amalia Kahana-Carmon’s theory of creative writing
This study concerns the theorizing of selfhood (rather than creativity), especially in narrative psychology. It is argued that creative writing mediates self-understanding in distinctive ways that are different from autobiographical narration. A concept of writerly dynamics, to do with the reciprocity between writing narrative fiction and the writer’s self-understanding, is introduced and posited as a complex process that involves creative opport…
Relationalism through Social Robotics
Social robotics is a rapidly developing industry‐oriented area of research, intent on making robots in social roles commonplace in the near future. This has led to rising interest in the dynamics as well as ethics of human‐robot relationships, described here as a nascent relational turn. A contrast is drawn with the 1990s’ paradigm shift associated with relational‐self themes in social psychology. Constructions of the human‐robot relationship rep…
Storytelling scholars and the mythic child: Rhetorical aesthetics in two case studies
Rhetorical and literary deconstruction of psychologists’ texts is an established line of postmodern critique, but the aesthetic-affective register of reader—text interactions has received little attention. The issue overlaps inquiries about embodied aspects of subjectivity. Drawing partly on Bakhtin’s dialogism, this study explores two themes concerning the interplay between textual and readerly dynamics through a close-up on two texts containing…
“Talking Brought Me Here”: Affordances of Fiction for the Narrative Self
This essay considers the role that the literary experience may play in furthering fiction readers’ self-understanding. Although not everyone reads literary fiction, and fewer may claim to have been highly influenced by a literary work, the psychological phenomenon could reveal something about the reflexivity of self-construction that would not be detected by theorizing about the self solely on the basis of analysing self-narratives. Three main pr…
On the ‘Art and Science’ of Personal Transformation: Some critical reflections
This paper takes a critical look at the applicability of the Jungian view on individuation and imagination. While Jungian ideas can bring something fresh and necessary into educational practice, personal enthusiasm might blind us to a dissonance between educational goals and the therapeutic goal of analytical psychology. The case is made with particular attention to some work in the field of transformative learning in adult education
The social context of school bullying: Evidence from a survey of children in South Wales
The article presents a descriptive review of the various patterns of association with school bullying that were revealed in a survey of over 26,000 children aged 11–16 in South Wales. The survey examined risks and protective factors for young people and included a question about being a bully and another about being bullied. Following regression analyses, significant associations were found between being a bully and various attitudinal and behavi…
A Discovery of Meaning: The Case of C. G. Jung's House Dream
Jung's work is a serious attempt to engage psychology with `meaning', comparable with narrative psychology, though the two emerged in different cultural and historical settings. Whereas narrative psychologists typically study autobiographical stories, Jung studied images such as those appearing in dreams and myths. This study turns the question on Jung, examining a dream that he had regarded as the birth moment of his `collective unconscious' the…
Identity commitments in personal stories of mental illness on the internet
The Internet augments the informational flows that organize biographies in late modernity. Sufferers of bipolar disorder (manic depression) may turn to the Internet for accessible information, to learn about others' experiences and impart their own knowledge. Personal accounts posted in the public domain become themselves part of those informational flows, and thus acquire a dual life at a boundary between private and public domains. This poses c…
The science and meaning of the self
Scientists and practitioners alike invest in theorizing the self in psychology, but prioritize differently theoretical and practical objectives. Theorizing the self differs also when mapped onto the 'science versus art' debate, viewed historically and with reference to the philosophy of science. Jung's model of the psyche is compared and contrasted with social cognitive models of self-concept. Finally, some implications of social constructionism …
On innatism: A response to Hogenson
Jung's view on myth and post‐modern psychology
Post-modern psychology embodies two core themes, the social mind and the narrative self. Whereas the social-mind thesis seems diametrically opposed to Jung's position regarding human nature, the narrative-self thesis is associated with research and theorizing about personal myth and mythmaking in ways that could make contact with Jung's concerns. Jung's view is examined here with particular attention to McAdams' theory of narrative identity. It i…
What makes a robot ‘social
Rhetorical moves that construct humanoid robots as social agents disclose tensions at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and social robotics. The discourse of robotics often constructs robots that are like us (and therefore unlike dumb artefacts). In the discourse of STS, descriptions of how people assimilate robots into their activities are presented directly or indirectly against the backdrop of actor-network theory, which…
Identity commitments in personal stories of mental illness on the internet
The Internet augments the informational flows that organize biographies in late modernity. Sufferers of bipolar disorder (manic depression) may turn to the Internet for accessible information, to learn about others' experiences and impart their own knowledge. Personal accounts posted in the public domain become themselves part of those informational flows, and thus acquire a dual life at a boundary between private and public domains. This poses c…
Direct Perception and Symbol Forming in Positioning
Harreà’s positioning theory posits discourse as the concrete context within which selves are produced, but accentuates the dissociation between the physical engagement in a conversation and ‘location’ in a conceptual interpersonal space. The thesis that positioning involves selective attention, and that selected positions express ongoing transformations in the hearer’s experiential realm is expanded here initially by reference to Gibson’s direct‐…
On innatism: A response to Hogenson
Archaic man meets a marvellous automaton: Posthumanism, social robots, archetypes
Posthumanism is associated with critical explorations of how new technologies are rewriting our understanding of what it means to be human and how they might alter human existence itself. Intersections with analytical psychology vary depending on which technologies are held in focus. Social robotics promises to populate everyday settings with entities that have populated the imagination for millennia. A legend of A Marvellous Automaton appears as…
Jung's view on myth and post‐modern psychology
Post-modern psychology embodies two core themes, the social mind and the narrative self. Whereas the social-mind thesis seems diametrically opposed to Jung's position regarding human nature, the narrative-self thesis is associated with research and theorizing about personal myth and mythmaking in ways that could make contact with Jung's concerns. Jung's view is examined here with particular attention to McAdams' theory of narrative identity. It i…
Mixed Metaphors and Narrative Shifts: Archetypes
Jungian archetype theory exemplifies tensions between ways of questioning in psychology. Jung anchors his thesis in the contrasting discourses of biology and metaphysics, though his narrative presents a 'whole' transcending both. The present focus is on itsproblematic touchdown in the discourse of science. The essay considers, in turn, tensions specific to Jung's writing, tensions between Jungian theory development and the logic of scientific dis…
Towards dialogic epistemology: The Problem of the Text
This article considers epistemological implications of Bakhtin's dialogism. Bakhtin urged scholars in the human sciences to treat a text as having a voice of its own, to be attuned to its creativity and originality, and to resist conflating one's image of the author with the actual person who has produced the text. Importing his ideas into the social sciences creates a site of tensions at the disciplines' boundaries. Yet his characterisation of d…
The social context of school bullying: Evidence from a survey of children in South Wales
The article presents a descriptive review of the various patterns of association with school bullying that were revealed in a survey of over 26,000 children aged 11–16 in South Wales. The survey examined risks and protective factors for young people and included a question about being a bully and another about being bullied. Following regression analyses, significant associations were found between being a bully and various attitudinal and behavi…
A Discovery of Meaning: The Case of C. G. Jung's House Dream
Jung's work is a serious attempt to engage psychology with `meaning', comparable with narrative psychology, though the two emerged in different cultural and historical settings. Whereas narrative psychologists typically study autobiographical stories, Jung studied images such as those appearing in dreams and myths. This study turns the question on Jung, examining a dream that he had regarded as the birth moment of his `collective unconscious' the…
The Necessity of the Unconscious
Problems with medieval Welsh local administration—the case of themaenorand themaenol
The Presence of Self in the Person: Reflexive Positioning and Personal Constructs Psychology
Tan and Moghaddam’s (1995) ‘reflexive positioning’ expansion of Harré’s positioning theory provokes consideration of psychological factors underlying the discursive production of selves. However, it understates the issue, why do people appropriate particular positions, hearable in utterances, as applicable to themselves. Some of the theoretical ambiguities dissipate when positioning is approached from a personal‐constructs perspective (Kelly 1995…
Relationalism through Social Robotics
Social robotics is a rapidly developing industry‐oriented area of research, intent on making robots in social roles commonplace in the near future. This has led to rising interest in the dynamics as well as ethics of human‐robot relationships, described here as a nascent relational turn. A contrast is drawn with the 1990s’ paradigm shift associated with relational‐self themes in social psychology. Constructions of the human‐robot relationship rep…
On the ‘Art and Science’ of Personal Transformation: Some critical reflections
This paper takes a critical look at the applicability of the Jungian view on individuation and imagination. While Jungian ideas can bring something fresh and necessary into educational practice, personal enthusiasm might blind us to a dissonance between educational goals and the therapeutic goal of analytical psychology. The case is made with particular attention to some work in the field of transformative learning in adult education
The Child-School Interface: Environment and Behaviour
The ecosystemic metaphor the behaviour setting the direct environment organizational ethos the social niche - teacher-pupil relationships, pupil-pupil relationships a child at school problems of adjustment living child, whole school
The Presence of Self in the Person: Reflexive Positioning and Personal Constructs Psychology
Tan and Moghaddam’s (1995) ‘reflexive positioning’ expansion of Harré’s positioning theory provokes consideration of psychological factors underlying the discursive production of selves. However, it understates the issue, why do people appropriate particular positions, hearable in utterances, as applicable to themselves. Some of the theoretical ambiguities dissipate when positioning is approached from a personal‐constructs perspective (Kelly 1995…
Problems with medieval Welsh local administration—the case of themaenorand themaenol
Direct Perception and Symbol Forming in Positioning
Harreà’s positioning theory posits discourse as the concrete context within which selves are produced, but accentuates the dissociation between the physical engagement in a conversation and ‘location’ in a conceptual interpersonal space. The thesis that positioning involves selective attention, and that selected positions express ongoing transformations in the hearer’s experiential realm is expanded here initially by reference to Gibson’s direct‐…
On the empirical proof of archetypes: Commentary on Maloney (JAP 44, January 1999, 101–16)
Reply to Maloney
The Relevance of C.G. Jung
This review essay considers recent contributions to the Jung literature by Pietikäinen, Stevens and Yates. All three books comment on the interplay between Jung's life and psychology, but interpret his writings very differently from each other. Stevens looks to biology for corroboration of archetype theory, whereas Pietikäainen extrapolates from Cassirer' s philosophy a conceptual framework for redefining archetypes as cultural products. The anth…
Psychological Value and Symbol Formation
Jung's (1928/1988) radical revision of Freud's libido theory is critically reviewed here with a focus on its cogency, rather than historical context, identifying its convergence with gestalt field theory and the relational concept of mind. Jung was aware of a tension between his `pure' concept of psychic energy and the `applied' concept, already established in clinical practice. Today the latter is familiar, though objectionable on scientific and…
The Necessity of the Unconscious
On innatism: A response to Hogenson
Jung's view on myth and post‐modern psychology
Post-modern psychology embodies two core themes, the social mind and the narrative self. Whereas the social-mind thesis seems diametrically opposed to Jung's position regarding human nature, the narrative-self thesis is associated with research and theorizing about personal myth and mythmaking in ways that could make contact with Jung's concerns. Jung's view is examined here with particular attention to McAdams' theory of narrative identity. It i…
Between the analytical and the critical: Implications for theorizing the self 1
This article considers some of the implications of the critical standpoint in 'general' psychology in view of Jungian assumptions about the development of the self. The first part introduces the critical standpoint, which encompasses a spectrum of postmodern psychologies sharing a critique of the discipline's 'mainstream' positivist approach, an interest in human lives as existing in culture and historical time, and sensitivity to the dialogical …
Mixed Metaphors and Narrative Shifts: Archetypes
Jungian archetype theory exemplifies tensions between ways of questioning in psychology. Jung anchors his thesis in the contrasting discourses of biology and metaphysics, though his narrative presents a 'whole' transcending both. The present focus is on itsproblematic touchdown in the discourse of science. The essay considers, in turn, tensions specific to Jung's writing, tensions between Jungian theory development and the logic of scientific dis…
The science and meaning of the self
Scientists and practitioners alike invest in theorizing the self in psychology, but prioritize differently theoretical and practical objectives. Theorizing the self differs also when mapped onto the 'science versus art' debate, viewed historically and with reference to the philosophy of science. Jung's model of the psyche is compared and contrasted with social cognitive models of self-concept. Finally, some implications of social constructionism …
Identity commitments in personal stories of mental illness on the internet
The Internet augments the informational flows that organize biographies in late modernity. Sufferers of bipolar disorder (manic depression) may turn to the Internet for accessible information, to learn about others' experiences and impart their own knowledge. Personal accounts posted in the public domain become themselves part of those informational flows, and thus acquire a dual life at a boundary between private and public domains. This poses c…
A Discovery of Meaning: The Case of C. G. Jung's House Dream
Jung's work is a serious attempt to engage psychology with `meaning', comparable with narrative psychology, though the two emerged in different cultural and historical settings. Whereas narrative psychologists typically study autobiographical stories, Jung studied images such as those appearing in dreams and myths. This study turns the question on Jung, examining a dream that he had regarded as the birth moment of his `collective unconscious' the…
The social context of school bullying: Evidence from a survey of children in South Wales
The article presents a descriptive review of the various patterns of association with school bullying that were revealed in a survey of over 26,000 children aged 11–16 in South Wales. The survey examined risks and protective factors for young people and included a question about being a bully and another about being bullied. Following regression analyses, significant associations were found between being a bully and various attitudinal and behavi…
“Talking Brought Me Here”: Affordances of Fiction for the Narrative Self
This essay considers the role that the literary experience may play in furthering fiction readers’ self-understanding. Although not everyone reads literary fiction, and fewer may claim to have been highly influenced by a literary work, the psychological phenomenon could reveal something about the reflexivity of self-construction that would not be detected by theorizing about the self solely on the basis of analysing self-narratives. Three main pr…
On the ‘Art and Science’ of Personal Transformation: Some critical reflections
This paper takes a critical look at the applicability of the Jungian view on individuation and imagination. While Jungian ideas can bring something fresh and necessary into educational practice, personal enthusiasm might blind us to a dissonance between educational goals and the therapeutic goal of analytical psychology. The case is made with particular attention to some work in the field of transformative learning in adult education
Storytelling scholars and the mythic child: Rhetorical aesthetics in two case studies
Rhetorical and literary deconstruction of psychologists’ texts is an established line of postmodern critique, but the aesthetic-affective register of reader—text interactions has received little attention. The issue overlaps inquiries about embodied aspects of subjectivity. Drawing partly on Bakhtin’s dialogism, this study explores two themes concerning the interplay between textual and readerly dynamics through a close-up on two texts containing…
Relationalism through Social Robotics
Social robotics is a rapidly developing industry‐oriented area of research, intent on making robots in social roles commonplace in the near future. This has led to rising interest in the dynamics as well as ethics of human‐robot relationships, described here as a nascent relational turn. A contrast is drawn with the 1990s’ paradigm shift associated with relational‐self themes in social psychology. Constructions of the human‐robot relationship rep…
Writerly dynamics and culturally situated authentic human existence in Amalia Kahana-Carmon’s theory of creative writing
This study concerns the theorizing of selfhood (rather than creativity), especially in narrative psychology. It is argued that creative writing mediates self-understanding in distinctive ways that are different from autobiographical narration. A concept of writerly dynamics, to do with the reciprocity between writing narrative fiction and the writer’s self-understanding, is introduced and posited as a complex process that involves creative opport…
Archaic man meets a marvellous automaton: Posthumanism, social robots, archetypes
Posthumanism is associated with critical explorations of how new technologies are rewriting our understanding of what it means to be human and how they might alter human existence itself. Intersections with analytical psychology vary depending on which technologies are held in focus. Social robotics promises to populate everyday settings with entities that have populated the imagination for millennia. A legend of A Marvellous Automaton appears as…
What makes a robot ‘social
Rhetorical moves that construct humanoid robots as social agents disclose tensions at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and social robotics. The discourse of robotics often constructs robots that are like us (and therefore unlike dumb artefacts). In the discourse of STS, descriptions of how people assimilate robots into their activities are presented directly or indirectly against the backdrop of actor-network theory, which…
Towards dialogic epistemology: The Problem of the Text
This article considers epistemological implications of Bakhtin's dialogism. Bakhtin urged scholars in the human sciences to treat a text as having a voice of its own, to be attuned to its creativity and originality, and to resist conflating one's image of the author with the actual person who has produced the text. Importing his ideas into the social sciences creates a site of tensions at the disciplines' boundaries. Yet his characterisation of d…
Psychology (29 works) · Epistemology (26 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Psychoanalysis (15 works) · Social Representations and Identity (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (9 works)