Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon
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- Jan De Vos (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Is not the most intriguing aspect of psychologisation seems to be that every critique threatens to bounce back in some kind of meta-psychologisation. Although in this day and age and age it seems highly unlikely to repeat the popular anti-psychiatry movement of some decades ago and to get an anti-psychology movement on the tracks, it would leave us immediately stranded in some kind of essentialization of the human being and its life-world. Are we thus lost in psychologisation? Is there no outside of psychology and psychologisation? In the following I will focus on the novel De Paradijsvogel (The Bird of Paradise) of the leftist Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon. I will briefly juxtapose it with Christopher Lasch‘s seminal critique in his book The Culture of Narcissism and search for the germs of a non-psychology: which is, a critique on psychologisation which transcends the pitfalls of metapsychologisation and reopens the path of an ideology critique, the latter seemingly having become impossible too.
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- Louis Paul Boon, De Paradijsvogel, Psychologization
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-1141794
- MLA
- De Vos, Jan. “Beyond Psychologisation: The Non-Psychology of the Flemish Novelist Louis Paul Boon.” ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 8, 2010, pp. 201–15.
- APA
- De Vos, J. (2010). Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 8, 201–215.
- Chicago author-date
- De Vos, Jan. 2010. “Beyond Psychologisation: The Non-Psychology of the Flemish Novelist Louis Paul Boon.” ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY 8: 201–15.
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- De Vos, Jan. 2010. “Beyond Psychologisation: The Non-Psychology of the Flemish Novelist Louis Paul Boon.” ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY 8: 201–215.
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- 1.De Vos J. Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY. 2010;8:201–15.
- IEEE
- [1]J. De Vos, “Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon,” ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, vol. 8, pp. 201–215, 2010.
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