From Soul to Psyche: Historical Geographies of Psychology and Space

Gagen, Elizabeth; Linehan, Denis

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“…McGeachan explores numerous of Laing's cases, 17 and it is in the spirit of her inquiries that we address below our empirical 'fragment' of psychoanalysis-meetingpsychiatry-meeting-geography, while alsoalso echoing McGeachancontributing to literature on the historical geographies of the 'psy'-disciplines. 18 A second departure-point is work on the cultural geographies of walking, particularly in the guise of what Lorimer has called the 'new walking studies', a 'term 'point[ing] towards a marvellously eclectic array of walking-thinking-practices'. 19 This journal, cultural geographies, has carried numerous papers in this vein: some on how articulations of literature, reading and walking resonate with place and landscape; 20 some on the political-aesthetic 'arts of exploration' experimenting with how walking, individually, in installations or on 'walking tours', can illuminate or subvert established socio-spatial orders; 21 and some on walking routes, pilgrimages or marches that deepen spiritual or ethical entanglements with both the 'good' of holy places and the 'bad' of threatening, violent, even genocidal ones.…”

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‘A Walk 21/1/35’: a psychiatric-psychoanalytic fragment meets the new walking studies

Phelan

Philo

2020

cultural geographies

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This paper reconstructs a fragment of psychiatric-psychoanalytical geography, interfacing it with the ‘new walking studies’, centring on a walk conducted in 1935 by a man experiencing mental health problems in Glasgow, Scotland. This man, a patient of the psychiatrist Thomas Ferguson Rodger, had mobility problems that rendered walking difficult – prone to stumbling, staggering, wavering – but with the likelihood of these problems being psychosomatic in origin. Through analytic sessions enacting a kind of ‘make-do’ psychoanalysis, the patient reflected on his mobility problems, as when relating his own walking ‘experiment’. Explanations advanced for his difficulties mixed psychoanalytic tropes with a gathering self-awareness of how fraught childhood experiences, had created the frame for an adult existence continually shying away from wider encounters and challenges beyond the domestic sphere. Central here was forward momentum being lost, whether walking or advancing through a life-course, with material and metaphoric senses of being stalled or stuck – spatially, environmentally – constantly entraining one another. This case study is deployed to illustrate claims about the ‘worlding’ of psychoanalysis, and to offer provocations for how such a psychiatric-psychoanalytic geography fragment might be illuminated by work on the cultural geographies of walking.

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‘A Walk 21/1/35’: a psychiatric-psychoanalytic fragment meets the new walking studies

Phelan

Philo

2020

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“…34 Dunne also finds a fit with what Elizabeth Gagen and Denis Linehan -following the work of Nikolas Rose -label 'psy knowledge', a modern complex of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. 35 Theirs is an intellectual survey of some of the ordinary sites where the psy complex took root, and the diverse sorts of spatiality it produced. Here the search is widened, so to draw attention to literature and associated creative arts as another space of experiment.…”

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Memoirs for the Earth: Jacquetta Hawkes’s literary experiments in deep time

Lorimer

2012

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This article is concerned with the narration of earth processes in stories of a younger world. It centres on A Land (1951), the most notable published work of Jaquetta Hawkes, archaeologist, prehistorian, writer and journalist. The land under examination is Britain, and its island story becomes her story too. The book unfolds as an unconventional geological history of regional scenery, prehistoric life and rock formations that is at the same time an impressionistic portrayal of self through the ecstatic physical apprehension of earth forces and environmental fields. For Hawkes the storyteller, mineral memories and body memories are unlocked in tandem. This article shows how such an experimental narrative is enabled through unexpected temporal shifts, suggesting a continuum of consciousness across diverse life forms, and explores the cultural conditions, psychological theories and personal circumstances that served to inspire Hawkes the author. In the closing stages of the article, the author enters into the spirit of Hawkes's narrative style, featuring as protagonist as well as commentator.

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“…Moreover, by following a genealogical approach to the constitution of educational subjectivities, the geographical dimension becomes clearer. Elsewhere I have argued that in order to better understand the shifting vitalities through which subjects are shaped by psychological knowledge, we have to go beyond the texts and documents where ideas first take hold and examine the sites where knowledge is spatialised (Gagen ; Gagen and Linehan ). I develop this here by drawing on two scales of knowledge production.…”

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Governing emotions: citizenship, neuroscience and the education of youth

Gagen

2013

Trans Inst British Geog

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Schools are one of many sites to incorporate emotional literacy into their institutional agenda in recent years. Alongside broader changes in social, economic and political practice, schools have welcomed emotional education as a necessary element in the training of young people. In 2007, the government introduced Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) to secondary schools across England and Wales. The aim of the programme is to integrate emotional literacy into the secondary school curriculum, following the successful implementation of SEAL at primary level. In this paper, I argue that rather than being about the encouragement of happy, content or well-adjusted individuals, it is, more crucially, about a new form of citizenship. Forms of self-government predicated on emotional management have been made possible since the widespread popularisation of neuroscientific understandings of emotions. By tracing the transposition of these ideas from popular brain science to education policy and finally to the curricula delivered via SEAL, I suggest that educating emotions has become central to the way citizenship is currently being defined for young people. By bringing together recent insights from geographies of education, emotion and citizenship, I suggest that the relationship between governmentality, education and youth requires closer critical attention.

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From Soul to Psyche: Historical Geographies of Psychology and Space

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

‘A Walk 21/1/35’: a psychiatric-psychoanalytic fragment meets the new walking studies

‘A Walk 21/1/35’: a psychiatric-psychoanalytic fragment meets the new walking studies

Memoirs for the Earth: Jacquetta Hawkes’s literary experiments in deep time

Governing emotions: citizenship, neuroscience and the education of youth

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