Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon

De Vos, Jan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9659-504X 2010. Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon. Annual Review of Critical Psychology 8 , pp. 201-216.

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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

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
ISSN:	1464-0538
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 10:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/138886

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