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Record Nr.

UNINA9910279573003321

Autore

Stenner Paul

Titolo

Liminality and Experience : A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Psychosocial / / by Paul Stenner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9781137272119

1137272112

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

Studies in the Psychosocial, , 2662-2637

Disciplina

302.1

Soggetti

Personality

Difference (Psychology)

Social psychology

Emotions

Philosophy of mind

Self

Ontology

Personality and Differential Psychology

Social Psychology

Emotion

Philosophy of the Self

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction: Throwing psychosocial studies in at the deep end -- Chapter 2. This is not… the truth: on fabulation -- Chapter 3. This is not… food: on food for thought -- Chapter 4. This is not… a pipe: on the complexity of experience -- Chapter 5. This is not… a shock: on the passage between multiple worlds -- Chapter 6. This is not… a turn to affect: feeling between ontology and anthropology -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences of transition and transformation, or ‘becoming’. It brings fresh insight



into affect and emotion, dream and imagination, and fabulation and symbolism by tracing their relation to experiences of liminality. The author proposes a distinctive theory of the relationship between psychology and the social sciences with much to share with the arts. Its premise is that psychosocial existence is not made of ‘stuff’ like building blocks, but of happenings and events in which the many elements that compose our lives are temporarily drawn together. The social is not a thing but a flow of processes, and our personal subjectivity is part of that flow, ‘selves’ being tightly interwoven with ‘others’. But there are breaks and ruptures in the flow, and during these liminal occasions our experience unravels and is rewoven. This book puts such moments at the core of the psychosocial research agenda. Of transdisciplinary scope, it will appeal beyond psychosocial studies and social psychology to all scholars interested in the interface between experience and social (dis)order. .