Abstract
This paper theoretically and empirically explores critical psychological conceptualisations of conduct of everyday life and social self-understanding. The analysis of conduct of everyday life for people who have been hospitalized with depression shows experiences of doubleness. We understand doubleness as dilemmas, conflicts and contradictions in the conduct of everyday life. The case analysis of Steven serves to illustrate how cyclic routines can matter, fulfilling meaning in life and being both in conflict and contradiction to other concerns and aspects of meaning that vary over time. The paper empirically how these kind of conflicts, dilemmas and contradictions are much more complex, than what is possible to grasp in Holzkamp's understanding of conduct of everyday life (Holzkamp, 1998), which tends to produce dualistic opposition between cyclic everyday conduct (such as everyday life routines that we reproduce on a daily or weekly basis) and the particular meaningful conduct of everyday life. The paper expands the conceptualization of conduct of everyday life by emphasizing the concerns of collective subjects, and the dialectics of conflicts and dilemmas between individual and collective concerns in everyday practice, stressing the social we in our conceptualization of social self-understanding.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Dialogue and debate in the making of theoretical psychology : Selected papers of the fifteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Theoretical Psychology |
Editors | James Cresswell, Antonia Larrain, Andres Haye, Catherine Amanda Morgan, Gavin Brent Sullivan |
Number of pages | 10 |
Place of publication | Concord, Ontario |
Publisher | Captus Press |
Publication date | 2015 |
Pages | 211-220 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781553223283 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | 15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology: Dialogue and Debate in the making of Theoretical Psychology - Santiago, Chile Duration: 3 May 2013 → 7 May 2013 Conference number: 15 |
Conference
Conference | 15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology |
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Number | 15 |
Country/Territory | Chile |
City | Santiago |
Period | 03/05/2013 → 07/05/2013 |
Series | International Society for Theoretical Psychology |
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Volume | 15 |