Psychologization and the Subject of Late Modernity

Jan De Vos has a MD in psychology and holds a PhD in philosophy. He has worked as a clinical psychologist and is currently postdoctoral researcher at the faculty of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published widely on the topic of psychologization and is author of the book Psychologisation in times of Globalisation (2011).

Introduction: Psychology and its Doubles 1. Psychology, a Post-Cartesian Discipline. La Mettrie and the Perverse Core of the Psy-sciences  2.  From Psychologism to Psychologization. Edmund Husserl's Life-world Revisited 3. Therapeutic Culture and its Discontents. Christopher Lasch's Critique on Post-war Psychologization 4. Psycho-politics. Giorgi Agamben Homo Sacer as the Homo Psychologicus 5. Psychoanalysis and its Doubles. Towards a Hauntology of Psychologization Epilogue: Towards a Non-psychology