Deleuze, sense, and life

Marking the parameters of a psychology of individuation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8112349
AutoresIan Tucker (0000-0002-1314-2222, University of East London, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume22
Fascículo6
Páginas771-785
Data de publicação2012-06-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheory & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0959-3543 • E-ISSN: 1461-7447
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0959354312442787
OpenAlexW1985605272
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas10

This paper offers a psychology of individuation, drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of series, event, sense, and individuation to develop a way of thinking human experience that is non-reductionist and processual. Deleuze’s writing produces a conceptualization of life as multiple, novel, and yet inherently linked to the past. The desire for such an undertaking comes from the need to avoid capturing experience according to theories that prioritize one factor over others, and in doing so define psychological life as a set of intrinsic properties. Understanding individuals as the products of individuating processes introduces a philosophy of change that, although not entirely “pure,” can still be novel. A psychology of individuation potentially allows for the extraction of a virtual realm of sense that is “in between” forms of language and materiality, and which allows novelty to emerge in our social worlds. The paper concludes by discussing the potential moral benefits of conceptualizing psychological life as produced through processes of individuation

Cognitive science · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Individuation · Psychoanalysis · Realm · Reductionism · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Philosophy · Social Psychology