Inventing our selves: Psychology, power, and personhood

By Angel J. Gordo-Lpez, M. Rodrǵuez. 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions, History and Philosophy of Science, Social Psychology

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Governing emotionally vulnerable subjects and ‘therapisation’ of social justice (2015, background): “In other words, therapeutic governance instrumentalises autonomy (Rose 1998; see also Burman 2014).”
From Psychological Science to the Psychological Humanities: Building a General Theory of Subjectivity (2017, background): “T hi s ar tic le is in te nd ed so le ly fo r th e pe rs on al us e of th e in di vi du al us er an d is no t to be di ss em in at ed br oa dl y. logical subjects once they were able to reflect and understand themselves in psychological terms (Rose, 1996).”
Is “masculinity” a problem?: Framing the effects of gendered social learning in men. (2010, background): “Third, we assume that the means for social influence are not only through the accumulation of scientific research, but also through the dissemination of psychological theories and constructs into the public domain (Rose, 1996).”
Decoding ClassDojo: psycho-policy, social-emotional learning and persuasive educational technologies (2017, background): “These have transformed the child through the ‘scientific and technical imagination’ into an ‘object-child,’ rendered in ‘manipulable, coded, materialized, mathematized, two-dimensional traces, which may be utilized in any procedure of calculation’ (Rose 1996: 112).”
What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research? (2005, background): “Confession is central to "almost all of the proliferating systems of psychotherapy and counseling" (Rose 1996, p. 96).”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “As a result, the belief is that the only way for the poor and working classes to succeed is to become entrepreneurs and to adopt the neoliberal ideology and rhetoric of individual freedoms and personal responsibility through meritocracy (Rose 1998) sans public safety nets.”
Postfeminist sexual agency: Young women’s negotiations of sexual consent (2012, background): “…of ‘active citizenship’ (Larner, 2000: 24) in which individuals are considered ‘autonomous, rationally calculating, and free’ (Gill and Arthurs, 2006: 445), and are expected to able to transcend any sociostructural barriers that inhibit their individual freedoms and choices (Rose, 1990, 1996).”
The Costs of Consumer Culture and the “Cage Within”: The Impact of the Material “Good Life” and “Body Perfect” Ideals on Individuals” Identity and Well-Being (2007, background): “In short, consumer culture can become a “cage within,” its bars invisible and its power pernicious, precisely because its myths appear to “well up and rise out of our [own] depths, our [own] inner instincts, desires, or aspirations” (Rose, 1996, p. 187).”
Persons in Structures of Social Practice (2009, background): “Yet, the forms of power in relation to subjectivity are all part of a neo-liberal governmentality that seems to boil down to “the technologies of the self” of “the autonomous conduct of conduct” (e.g., Dean, 1999; Rose, 1996).”
Counseling for Work and RelationshipΨ (2012, background): “Although this upfront infusion of values is rooted in a critical and postmodern perspective that disavows the possibility of a value free science (Prilleltensky, 1997; Richardson, Constantine, & Washburn, 2005; Rose, 1996), the counseling for work and relationship perspective is especially indebted ”
‘What are you feeling right now?’ communities of maternal feeling on Mumsnet (2016, background): “In the therapeutic culture of the global North, articulating one’s concerns about performing parenthood (or any other type of subject position) and seeking advice tends to be acknowledged as a fundamental practice of selfhood and self-optimisation (Rose, 1996).”
Constructions of mathematicians in popular culture and learners’ narratives: a study of mathematical and non‐mathematical subjectivities (2010, background): “This lack of acknowledgement of external influences appears characteristic of the neo-liberal climate (Rose, 1996) in which a discourse of individualization (Beck, 1992; Beck & Beck-Gernsheim, 2002; Giddens, 1991) implies that individual situations are increasingly viewed as the result of…”
Young people’s uses of wearable healthy lifestyle technologies; surveillance, self-surveillance and resistance (2019, background): “In this sense, the practices of surveillance, at the same time, entail and promote self-surveillance, which as Rose (1998) state are grounded in norms and claims of truth.”
Trends in the Turn to Affect (2015, background): “It can also build on and learn from the important sociological work conducted on embodied practices, techniques and habits (Crossley, 2001, 2013; Rose, 1998; Shilling, 2008, 2012).”
Eating Like an Ox: Femininity and Dualistic Constructions of Bulimia and Anorexia (2004, background): “…of control (especially for women when ‘femaleness’ is paradoxically constructed as out-of-control) and popular definitions of mental wellbeing as ‘rational’ (Rose, 1996) operate powerfully to position bulimia and bulimic behaviours on the derogated periphery of the eating disorder binary.”