A Psychoanalytic Discursive Psychology

From Consciousness to Unconsciousness

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5965629
AutoresM Billig (0000-0002-0874-6419, Loughborough University, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume8
Fascículo1
Páginas17-24
Data de publicação2006-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445606059546
OpenAlexW2066883198
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências 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