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Attachment histories and futures: reply to Vicedo's Putting attachment in its place
No full textFor Vicedo, 'putting attachment in its place' seems to entail two aspects. The first is working to understand the rise of attachment theory and its place within the history of knowledge practices. The second is to criticize the validity of attachment theory. In this reply, we appraise three criticisms made by Vicedo of attachment theory, chosen as points for sustaining a dialogue. Our main point in this reply is that, in excluding the work of attachment researchers after Ainsworth from consideration, Vicedo's work is not yet able to properly 'put attachment in its place', in either sense of the phrase. At most, she puts Bowlby in the 1950s-1960s in his place, but without speaking effectively to subsequent attachment research. In our view, not just the validity, but the very meaning of attachment as a scientific research programme cannot be understood outside of its temporal context, and the relationship this entails between theory and research, past and future
"That Dazzling, Momentary Wake" of the lettre de cachet: The Problem of Experience in Foucault's Practice of History
No full textThe DSM-5 as Political Battleground: Gender Identities, Sexual Norms, and Female Desire, Special Issue of Psychology and Sexuality, vol.7, no.1-4. 67 pages.
No full textDisgust, disease, and disorder:Impurity as a mechanism for psychopathology
No full textConcerns about the contagiousness of the H1N1 flu strain resulted in an increase in hand sanitizer use. In fact, hand sanitizers are now symbolic for cleanliness in our culture. Although assumed to be helpful, however, hand sanitizers have been found to paradoxically elicit, rather than alleviate, anxiety (Blakey & Deacon, 2015). The symbolic extension of group hygiene behavior into cultural ideas about purity and pollution will then affect public health. However, this symbolic extension may also affect psychological health in the context of various biological and psychological risk factors, especially when variation in disgust is observed to be on the high end of the spectrum
The DSM-5 as political battleground: gender identities, sexual norms and female desire
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There’s power in the dirt: impurity, utopianism and radical politics
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The politics of purity: When, actually, is dirt matter out of place?
No full textIn Purity and Danger, Douglas theorizes purity and impurity in terms of the instantiation and disruption of a shared symbolic order. Purity/impurity discourses act, according to Purity and Danger, as a homeostatic system which ensures the preservation of this social whole, generally encoding that which threatens social equilibrium as impurity. There have been calls for new social theory on this 'under-theorized' topic. Presenting such further reflections, I argue that Douglas' account is less a full explanation than a regularity. Representations of purity are only secondarily symbols of the social order. Rather, purity/impurity discourses are only associated with 'matter out of place' when phenomena are assessed for their relative deviation from an imputed state of 'self-identity': qualitative homogeneity and correspondence with their essence. Purity and impurity do more than judge self-identity, however. They can play a fundamental role in its performative construction; they are well adapted for smuggling assumptions into our discourses regarding the essence of particular phenomena and forms of subjectivity, simplifying a complex world into a stark contrast between the dangerous and the innocent, the valuable and the valueless, the necessary and the contingent, the originary and the prosthetic, the real and the apparent, and the unitary and the fragmented. © The Author(s) 2013
Childhood innocence: essence, education, and performativity
No full textThis article will argue that representations of ‘childhood innocence’ do not express a prior and pure essence, but rather produce such representations performatively, through the separation of the pure and natural from the impure and corrupting. Innocence can be understood as a discourse constructing a relationship between subjectivities and their essence, whilst at the same time effacing the signs of this process of construction. Beginning with an analysis of Frank Wedekind's Mine-Haha, it will be suggested that in modern societies discourses can be mobilised to serve to protect and cultivate some individuals, but that they also operate powerful mechanisms of social exclusion, stratification, and normalisation
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