Culture, psychology and transitional space

Yates, Candida; Sclater, Shelley Day

doi:10.4324/9780203361047_chapter_9

Cited by 14 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…These processes of infancy retain their relevance throughout life. The facilitating environment, at rst a maternal adaptation to the infant, becomes in later life, the place in which there can be discovery, creativity and learning (see Day Sclater, 1998 andDay Sclater, 2000). It is a space that can exist between two people in a relationship, or in a more cultural context, one that in the right circumstances, can exist in the educational institution, and it is here that my present focus lies.…”

Section: Discussion: New Spaces For Learningmentioning

confidence: 98%

Teaching Psychoanalytic Studies: Towards a New Culture of Learning in Higher Education

Yates¹

2001

Psychoanalytic Studies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

IntroductionA recurring theme in recent discussions (e.g., see Greenberg, 1999) is the tendency towards the standardisation of psychotherapy training and one can argue that the values and practices of universities have been in uential in this process 1 (see end). The aim of this paper, however, is to turn to the academic sphere, to explore the reverse side of the coin, and the increasing in uence of therapeutic culture upon the university, and discuss the process of teaching psychoanalytic studies to university undergraduates as an example of this. I do not use the term 'therapy culture' in this context to refer to the content and form of psychotherapy training per se, but rather to connote a broader cultural shift, in which the values, practices and emotional self re ective processes associated with the more private clinical sphere of therapeutic encounters, are now more widely used in the public sphere more generally, and in non-clinical settings such as universities. As Richards (1999a, p. 13) points out, "(therapy culture) … is marked by, amongst other things, a preoccupation with feeling and relationships and a belief that emotional life can be better managed through a process of learning about one's feelings and one's relationships".This cultural development points to a shift in the ways in which we identify with social institutions and relate to authority. I will use different aspects of psychoanalytic and cultural theory, and in particular, the work of Richards (1999a,b) to argue that as the ethos of the therapeutic has become more in uential in public life, the containing functions of different social institutions have also shifted to become less rigid and authoritarian. I draw on feminist psychoanalytic theory of Minsky (1998), Benjamin (1990) and others to develop this argument, and discuss the gendered implications of what Richards (1999a) refers to as the cultural "turn towards the therapeutic". I will argue that in the university, as generally, this has allowed a more feminised environment to emerge in which a more uid model of object relations can exist and grow between individuals and their external worlds. This of course mirrors the more tangible changes in the social and political relations between men and women. This has also created the possibility for new forms of psychic investment and projections that are less governed by the more rigid and defensive values of the old patriarchal moral order, and which allow for more complex and active relationships with authority to emerge, which create the space for movement, otherness and change. As I go on to discuss, in the context of the university and university learning, this more feminised uid way of relating implies a more permissively re exive environment and a less split off relationship to learning, and to real and imagined intellectual authorities that exist there.To illustrate this cultural shift, and the potentials for a more feminised environment

show abstract

Section: Discussion: New Spaces For Learningmentioning

confidence: 98%

Teaching Psychoanalytic Studies: Towards a New Culture of Learning in Higher Education

Yates¹

2001

Psychoanalytic Studies

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The transitional space (Winnicott 1971;Yates and Day-Sclater 2000) is a discursive space or cultural field, where reality and fantasy can meet and intermingle in a process that begins with creativity and ends in an engagement with the world. It is the studio of the imagination but also the crucible of discovery.…”

Section: The Potential Space/transitional Objectmentioning

confidence: 99%

A psycho-cultural approach to radio listening and creative production

Breton

2013

Radio Journal:International Studies in Broadcast &Amp; Audio Media

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

a psycho-cultural approach to radio listening and creative production aBstract This discussant piece introduces and explains a psycho-cultural approach to understanding the emotional dimensions of radio listening and creative production. It then explores the ways in which radio is unconsciously used by listeners as a tool for maintaining psychic coherency. A psycho-cultural approach is a valuable tool for research because it is specifically attuned to the emotional dimensions of radio use and programme-making in a therapeutically infused culture. It also provides a means of explaining why radio is used in particular ways, in terms of the everyday maintenance of the self. The article closes with a consideration of the meta-psychological consequences of convergence and recent developments in listening technologies. The aim of the article is to initiate a discussion with radio scholars on the utility of this approach.In this concluding, discussant piece, I will demonstrate why a psycho-cultural approach should be considered as a complementary tool of analysis which seeks to explain the motives or reasons that lie behind radio listening and programme-making. I will then identify and explore themes in the preceding articles of this issue and re-articulate them from a psycho-cultural perspective informed by object relations psychoanalysis. Object relations psychoanalysis is very wide ranging in its scope and conceptual tools, and only a very small sample of its theoretical contributions feature here. I will present a taste of this oeuvre: concepts that have been used by the authors in this issue and have been KeywOrds object relations psychoanalysis psycho-cultural emotion engagement unconscious self-maintenance

show abstract

“…The final narratives, which are partially produced by the researcher and partially by the participant, point out not only the intersubjective production of data, which is a constitutive element of a qualitative approach (Stake, 2010), but also the dialog between psyche and culture that underlies the constitution of self (Yates & Day Sclater, 2000).…”

Section: Interactive Narratives As a Psychoanalytic Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive narratives in the investigation of the collective imaginary about motherhood

Granato

Aiello-Vaisberg

2016

Estud. psicol. (Campinas)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Considering narration and psychoanalysis as processes of interpreting human experience, a narrative was developed to investigate the collective imaginary about motherhood. It is a fictional story elaborated by the researchers based on their clinical experience with pregnant women. When the interactive narrative reaches a climax, the researcher interrupts the story and invites the participants to complete it. Subsequently, the researcher and participants discuss the addressed topic and their own experiences during the writing process. In the present study, an interactive narrative about a couple which faces the possibility of having a baby with Down syndrome was presented to two groups of undergraduate Pedagogy and Psychology students. The psychoanalytical consideration of the narratives completed suggested expectations of an idealized mother who would accept her child unconditionally despite the implied sacrifice and her own feelings and a strong and protective father, when present. Conceptions of motherhood and its conflicts are discussed.Keywords: Imaginary; Motherhood; Narratives; Psychoanalysis. Resumo Considerando o narrar e a psicanálise como processos de elaboração da experiência humana

show abstract

Culture, psychology and transitional space

Cited by 14 publications

References 0 publications

Teaching Psychoanalytic Studies: Towards a New Culture of Learning in Higher Education

Teaching Psychoanalytic Studies: Towards a New Culture of Learning in Higher Education

A psycho-cultural approach to radio listening and creative production

Interactive narratives in the investigation of the collective imaginary about motherhood

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About