Conduct of everyday life and social self-understanding after depression: theorizing beyond the duality of meaningful versus routines.

Lisbeth Hybholt, Line Lerche Mørck

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    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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDialogue and debate in the making of theoretical psychology : Selected papers of the fifteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society of Theoretical Psychology
    EditorsJames Cresswell, Antonia Larrain, Andres Haye, Catherine Amanda Morgan, Gavin Brent Sullivan
    Number of pages10
    Place of publicationConcord, Ontario
    PublisherCaptus Press
    Publication date2015
    Pages211-220
    ISBN (Print)9781553223283
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    Event15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology: Dialogue and Debate in the making of Theoretical Psychology - Santiago, Chile
    Duration: 3 May 20137 May 2013
    Conference number: 15

    Conference

    Conference15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology
    Number15
    Country/TerritoryChile
    CitySantiago
    Period03/05/201307/05/2013
    SeriesInternational Society for Theoretical Psychology
    Volume15

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