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Jun 1st, 2013 |
By Marc Applebaum
This morning I’m rereading bits of Alain Badiou’s beautiful book Ethics (L’éthique: Essai sur la conscience du mal). I’m struck again by how revelatory this text is on such a range of issues, and how useful for a renewed psychology, at the same time. I mentioned to a friend recently that Badiou’s discussion of becoming-a-subject
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Tags: Applebaum, Badiou, intersubjectivity
Apr 12th, 2013 |
By Marc Applebaum
Merleau-Ponty (1993) wrote, “For the speaker no less than for the listener, language is definitely something other than a technique for ciphering or deciphering ready-made significations” (p. 80). He is ever insistent that being-in-the-world is an embodied event, an ongoing discovery, and he relentlessly examines the ways in which experiences are given to us, prior
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Tags: Applebaum, cultural psychology, hermeneutics, intersubjectivity, Merleau-Ponty, technology, Yoshida
Mar 27th, 2013 |
By Marc Applebaum
I love Teo and Febbraro’s (2002) observation that “Psychology’s history can be studied as a history of fads” (p. 458). Teo (1996) has written that psychologists “have tended to value meta-theoretical constructions from outside their discipline more than those from inside their disciplines,” with the popularity of these constructions shifting as one or another current
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Posted in Praxis |
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Tags: Applebaum, cultural psychology, Husserl, Mohanty
Mar 25th, 2013 |
By Marc Applebaum
I’m happy to expand the linguistic diversity of our blog with this post of mine in Portuguese, which I offer with deep gratitude to the colleagues who volunteered to translate it: Eu ensino uma introdução à investigação psicológica para estudantes de doutorado que dura um ano. Muitos dos meus alunos são psicoterapeutas ou estão em
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Tags: Applebaum, cultural psychology, Merleau-Ponty
Feb 6th, 2013 |
By Marc Applebaum
Students new to phenomenological psychology often ask me what’s the difference between Clark Moustakas’ and Amedeo Giorgi’s research methods, since both approaches are called “phenomenological.” In fact there are major differences: in this post I’ll examine Moustakas’ Phenomenological Research Methods (1994) from the perspective of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological philosophy. Naturally I’ll also be speaking as
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Tags: Applebaum, epoche, Giorgi, human science, Husserl, research
Feb 2nd, 2013 |
By Marc Applebaum
Reading J. N. Mohanty’s essay “Husserl’s Concept of Intentionality” in Analecta Husserliana I (1971), the following passage, discussing the Logische Untersuchungen, stood out to me: “The static analysis lays bare the structure of what is called an intentional act whereby the word ‘act’ has to be taken not in its ordinary usage as meaning an activity or a process, but
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Tags: Applebaum, Husserl, intentionality, Mohanty
Dec 16th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
Since Husserl, phenomenological philosophers have dialogued with the empirical sciences in an attempt to contribute to a more complete human science—a science that speaks to the fullness of being human. The job of our philosophers, in this context, is to invite an opening up of an epistemological conversation that renews the sciences’ exploration of human
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Tags: Applebaum, human science, Merleau-Ponty, reduction
Oct 29th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
Merleau-Ponty (1968) wrote that questioning does not “fill in the blanks” in our knowledge. Instead, “the questions are within our life, within our history. They are born there, they die there, if they have found a response, more often than not they are transformed there” (p. 105). For phenomenologists, questions of any depth are never
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Tags: Applebaum, cultural psychology, postmodernism, technology
Oct 12th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
This conversation between philosopher Susi Ferrarello and me began, as is often the case in phenomenology, with an everyday experience: dreaming. My description of a dream led us to reflect on Merleau-Ponty’s discussions of dreaming and waking perception, and Husserl’s active and passive intentionality. The exchange continued over several weeks, and we’ve summarized it here–
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Tags: Applebaum, embodiment, Ferrarello, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty
Sep 12th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
The students who put this question to me are usually taking their first course in phenomenological or hermeneutic (narrative) psychological research. And in a way, I feel for them, because many of them didn’t expect to be facing something called “epistemology,” and bumping into any number of arcane Greek terms that seem to bear no
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Posted in Human Science |
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Tags: Applebaum, human science, research