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Theoretical Issues in Psychology is published as the discipline of psychology enters its (at least) third century. The year 2001 brings with it millennial reflections, as well as the strange sense of deja vu that we derive from the Kubrick movie. As to the former, a glance at the contents list of this volume will demonstrate both the maturity and the vigour of theoretical debate within psychology. There is a level of sophistication here that should be the cause of quiet celebration. Recent ideas about discursive practice and subjectivity, chaos theory and autopoiesis, are effortlessly entrained with classical issues. Canonical texts are looked at with fresh eyes. Unresolved social and political questions are doggedly persisted with, and new perspectives on the human experience are pioneered. We are not afraid of long words, even if French in origin, but nor are we afraid to recognise that we are physical beings who touch other beings, who hold, desire, and remember - and who talk, talk, talk. For surely it is theoretically-sensitive work in psychology - whether "critical" or not - that best represents what the discipline has to offer the wider community.
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Creative Ways of Being....Pages 3-12 And the Subject was Made Flesh: The Aesthetic and Corporate Dimensions of Psychology’s Body....Pages 13-21 Plugged In: Psychology, Technology and Popular Culture....Pages 23-34 Technologies of Trans-Sexing: Discursive Tension and Resistance within Psycho-Medical and Transgendered Theorising of Transsexual Bodies....Pages 35-45 Front Matter....Pages 47-47 Human Experience and the Enigma of Culture: Toward an Enactive Account of Cultural Practice....Pages 49-57 From Shared Representations to Consensually Coordinated Actions: Toward an Intrinsically Social Psychology....Pages 59-67 Cultural Psychology Meets Evolutionary Psychology: Toward a New Role for Biology in the Study of Culture and Experience....Pages 69-81 The Tajfel Effect....Pages 83-93 Discourse Analysis and Structural Supervision....Pages 95-104 Forming Cultures Through Virtual Social Communities....Pages 105-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Points of View and the Visual Arts: James Turrell, Antonio Damasio and The “No Point of View” Phenomenon....Pages 119-129 Beyond Representationalism: A Dynamical Approach Transcending Symbolism in Cognitive Psychology....Pages 131-143 The Dialectic of Critique, Theory and Method in Developing Feminist Research on Inference....Pages 145-157 Getting Rid of the Homunculus: A Direct Realist Approach....Pages 159-167 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Logic