Recently added articles from Critical Psychology:
Affect and feeling.(Editorial)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Michael Chertoff, America's Homeland Security secretary, recently announced that he thought a terrorist attack on America was imminent. This was not due to any strategic calculation of possible risk but rather due to his 'gut feeling'. The invocation of feeling or affect is often used to ...
Feeling F.I.N.E.: social psychology, suggestion and the problem of social influence.(fucked up, insecure, neurotic and emotional)(Report)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Introduction: Feeling F.I.N.E. I was introduced to the significance of the acronym feeling F.I.N.E. (f***ed up, insecure, neurotic and emotional) at a conference organised by the Hearing Voices Network (c.f., Blackman, 2001, 2007). In this setting which brought together service ...
Transference streams of affects and representations.(Report)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Psychoanalysis has almost exclusively seen the analytic journey as one that progresses from body to mind; or from primitive, pre-Oedipal relating, to a desired goal of mental and symbolic representation. In this paper I want to discuss the movement and relationship of affect and emotion in ...
Affect and encounter in psychoanalysis.(Report)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Introduction 'Affect' is murky stuff, hard to define or grasp; its relationship to its wayward sibs, 'feeling' and 'emotion', is uncertain and variable. Is affect a quantitative phenomenon, or a 'qualitative expression of the quantity of instinctual energy and of its ...
Toward a psychology of feeling.(Report)
Oct 01, 2007; ... Introduction Power relationships, in Foucault's terms, get inscribed upon the soul of the subject. The disciplinary practices of subjectification produce more than mere identities, they do not just generate ideal types of subject to which we must pay lip service in order to ...