Human Subjectivity, Selfhood and Selfscapes

Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86774-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This book explores cross-cultural similarities and differences of human subjectivity and selfhood through the concept of selfscapes.

Utilizing an ethnographic and person-centered approach to the study of human subjectivity, Selfscapes, Selfhoods, and Subjectivities demonstrates that autopoietic processes are informed by both the constraints of a social and material ecology acting on a particular person and by how that person is remembering and habitually responding to that history of engagement with the world. While the co-constitution of social and historical circumstance and individual reactivity and memory is universal, the way an autopoietic process unfolds within any given social ecology will vary, sometimes greatly, from person to person.

Drawing on a broad theoretical base, this book is essential reading for anthropologists, psychoanalysts, social psychologists, and anyone seeking to understand the varieties and particularities of human subjectivity and selfhood.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hollan, Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  Part 1: Orienting Concepts  2. Cross-Cultural Differences in Self (1992) 3. Constructivist Models of Mind, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and the Development of Culture Theory (2000) 4. On the Varieties and Particularities of Cultural Experience (2012) 5. Emotional Entrainment in Crowds and Other Social Formations (2012)  Part 2: Varieties and Particularities of Selfscapes  6. Selfscape Dreams (2003) 7. Selfscapes of Well-Being in a Rural Indonesian Village (2008) 8. From Ghosts to Ancestors (and Back Again): On the Cultural and Psychodynamic Mediation of Selfscapes (2014) 9. Relational, But Also Singular: On the Varieties and Particularities of Selfscapes (2023)

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas Hollan is Distinguished Professor and Luckman Distinguished Teacher in the Department of Anthropology at UCLA and a research psychoanalyst affiliated with the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles